

So is this legally different than making a photocopy of your passport? Since that is supposedly not allowed but in the moment you are asked you are obviously going to comply as you really need a place to stay. If it is not I hope this company gets into the legal drama they deserve.


You are probably technically right about rsync, and I had used rdiff-backup for many years actually instead. But I do think there is a different use case for each, depending on what you are backing up.
E.g. if it is files that change a lot, like documents or other text files. Rdiff-backup will be better, keeping old versions of them automatically ready for restoring.
But if it concerns backing up music, videos and also images (unless you edit them but then you’d probably save a new file as well), there doesn’t seem to be much difference to rsync anymore. Those files do not change, so an incremental backup won’t really add any value.