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Create efficient backups

Most backup strategies lead to a lot of wasted space because you invariably end up making copies of the same data over and over again. In essence, data deduplication is the process of comparing chunks of data, and retaining only a single unique copy, thereby saving disk space. When deployed as a data backup strategy, this means that only changes since the last backup are stored.

Backup tools for Linux are as prolific as browsers, video players or even text editors, , or just , is a deduplicating backup utility. Released under the BSD license, the project was forked from Attic, a is suitable as an everyday home or even enterprise backup solution, with a host of features that make it a breeze to use.

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