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Re:Show HN: A tool for painless automated backups by ptspts on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:04AM (#16883787)
rsync --link-dest can't do content deduplication, can't upload to the cloud and it's much more inconvenient to use for doing and managing backups than Duplicity, Duplicacy or Duplicati.
Re:Show HN: A tool for painless automated backups by stephenr on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:52AM (#16891624)
> rsync snip can't upload to the cloud

First you have to settle on a definition for cloud before you get to make claims about what tools can or can’t do.

Re:Show HN: A tool for painless automated backups by ThatHNGuy on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:38AM (#16901893)
rclone can!