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> I didn't understand how I would set that up with your program

> I was just surprised to see it marketed as a backup tool instead of a file synchronization tool

https://www.hackerschool.com/manual, Ctrl-F, "feign surprise"

That's not at all the kind of surprise that article is about. If you're going to go all Baloney Detection Kit on us, at least do it right.

To be fair, if someone casually links to a HowTo for rsync-based snapshots, saying that he can't understand how a mirroring app can be used for setting up rolling backups is a pretense modesty.

What I meant was I don't understand how I could set up an efficient rolling backup scheme using this tool. I included the link to Mike Rubel's page because it demonstrates using hard links to share unchanged files between backups.

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