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Re:Creating Backup Storage Sucks by Hamuko on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:40AM (#49546306)
Apple's Time Machine still backs up your Mac even when you don't have access to the backup target (USB isn't connected, network isn't available). It just stores the backup information on your local storage and then transfers it over to the actual backup target when it's back online. Don't know if there's similar solutions for non-macOS systems though.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102154

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Re:Creating Backup Storage Sucks by drdexebtjl on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:01AM (#49548451)
Restic can backup to a local repository and later copy the snapshot to a remote repository.

But if you’re on Linux, it’s better to use ZFS or Btrfs and native filesystem snapshots, since they’re atomic.

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