[Discuss] Crashplan is discontinued

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
> Dale Worley's approach:
> > I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository
> 
> Sounds interesting; one of my use-cases is dealing with a couple hundred gigs of photos, with new ones arriving (via Nextcloud's sync capability, which I've set up recently as part of my Docker infra) at a rate of a thousand or so a month.
> 
> One of the issues with pics is deduplication, as they're renamed across folders. My current rsnapshot approach doesn't cope well with that. Could git do this automatically without complex scripting?
> 

That sounds like maybe a job for bup:

https://github.com/bup/bup/blob/master/README.md

-dsr-