Re: SSD TBW

On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:20:30 -0700, Don Y wrote:

> [Often, older sources would disappear so rsync(1) was a bad choice]

There’s a way around that: you can use the “--link-dest” option to
create multigenerational backups, with deduping of unchanged files.
Or, if the files are too small to bother with deduping, just do the
rsync to a new destination directory each time.

> But, the small size and the fact that it had a built-in TINY
> display and keyboard eventually grew tiresome.

Would you believe, it was small enough to fit in a pants pocket -- at
least on one pair of pants I had at the time ;).

I remember using it heavily at a client’s place, to SSH into the
Asterisk server to watch its logs while debugging the integration of a
predictive dialler with my call-management system and coordinating
with the operator making the test calls.