@lakeswimmer@aus.social What would be "better", in your view? It depends a lot on what you want to back up, how often, and where from/to. If you are backing up disk images, you really should be using something snaphotty (as the ZFS enthusiast suggested), if you are backing up files, especially if Linux to Linux, it's hard to go past rsync - partials, hardlinking, lots of controls, exclusion lists, inclusion lists, compression... If you need some kind of scaffolding to look at, arrange, select, restore from, document or index your backups, then rsync may be too low-level.