Well thank you, but you haven’t tried to explain any of this VERY basic concept you speak of, you’ve just told me that RAID isn’t backup. No one but you brought up RAID.

Nice try, son. Now, stick to mansplaining something you actually understand and can articulate.

Welcome to the MAGA world, snowflake. Well deserved.

Yes, please. Slow it down for me. I’d love to hear this.

None of those programs verifies integrity. Borg deduplicates, and optionally encrypts data. Restic is a front end for rsync, which only offers incremental back up. Meaning, restic/rsync compares your source and destination directories, and if the data are identical it does nothing, but if there are any changes it will upload only that changed data. None of the apps care what the data are, you can backup gibberish and they will happily put it another place for you.

You do realize that what borg and restic do is make copies of your data, right?