Why videos? I feel like an old man yelling at clouds every time something that sounds interesting is presented in a fucking video. Videos are so damn awful. They take time, I need audio and I can't copy&paste. Why have they become the default for things that should've been a blog post?
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Thank you for putting into words what ive subconsciously been thinking for years. Every search result prioritizes videos at the top and I'm still annoyed every time. Or even worst I have to hunt through a 10 minute video for the 30 seconds of info I needed. Stoohhhhpppp internet of new! Make it good again!
Ad money.
Blogs can have ads.
Hear hear. Knowledge should be communicated in an easily shareable way that can also be archived as easily, in contrast to a video requiring hundreds of MB:s.
Especially for a command line tool
man rsync
I'll never not upvote Veronica Explains. Excellent creator and excellent info on everything I've seen.
I never thought of it as slow. More like very reliable. I dont need my data to move fast, I need it to be copied with 100% reliability.
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Surely restic or borg would be better for backups?
Rsync can send files and not delete stuff, but there's no versioning or retention settings.
If you add --delete-before, it absolutely can delete stuff.
Yeah but then it's not really a good backup!
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It's not bad if you don't need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust
Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you're not a rust-freak like me.
Rustic scares me. I will 100% forget what tool I used to backup after 5 years and be unable to recover my files.
I still prefer tar for quick and dirty same box copies.
tar cf - * | (cd /target; tar xfp -)
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Veeam for image/block based backups of Windows, Linux and VMs.
syncthing for syncing smaller files across devices.
Thank you very much.
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