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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 that have already been backed up, filtering out duplicated 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. BorgBackup, or just Borg, is a deduplicating backup utility—released under the BSD license, the project was forked from Attic, a popular backup utility, in 2015. Thanks to the data deduplication technique, Borg 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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Since Borg is only interested in changes since your last backup, the entire process is fast and efficient. Even better, Borg also supports compression, which further limits the amount of disk space taken up by backups. Finally, Borg also supports client-side encryption, so you can safely encrypt backups before they are transmitted to remote storage locations. Apart from all that, Borg backups can be mounted as a file system. This means that you can use a file manager to examine the contents of the backup and restore only specific files.