Is there backup software that accounts for moved and renamed files?

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  • rsync

    An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

  • I would prefer to use a revision control system, like git if keeping multiple versions of documents is important. Otherwise, if you don't find anything else to your liking, you could write your own scripts based on rsync with the clone-dest, detect-renamed, and detect-renamed-lax patches.

  • rsync-patches

    Various patch files for rsync that get updated with each new rsync release. Patches go here to simmer and see if they'll make it into the main release. See the individual patch files to check if the patch is preliminary and/or untested.

  • I would prefer to use a revision control system, like git if keeping multiple versions of documents is important. Otherwise, if you don't find anything else to your liking, you could write your own scripts based on rsync with the clone-dest, detect-renamed, and detect-renamed-lax patches.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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