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I have only recently woken up after thoroughly inadequate sleep. I also didn't watch any Star Trek until COVID, so it's not particularly engrained in my cultural awareness.
So when I was thinking of the Borg in response to your post, my mind didn't go to "resistance is futile" but, instead, "all your base are belong to us."
That tool sounds pretty cool though! I've been very lazily looking for a good backup solution, so thank you for the name!
Okay so BorgBackup is a CLI tool, I think for Linux and MacOS. There are GUI front-ends like Pika and Vorta.
Compared to Rsync, which makes a 1 to 1 copy of a section of your Unix file system and then makes incremental backups by hard linking unchanged files, Borg cuts your data into chunks, de-duplicates it (imagine you've got three Linux Mint install ISOs, there are probably hunks of them that are identical, it only stores one copy and makes note where it goes, saving space) compresses and encrypts it. Your thoroughly blenderized data is then stored in an archive, which can be on a remote server (the server has to run the borg software, and they communicate over SSH) or on locally mounted storage, I'm doing both.
For reference, I've been in the Linux administration industry for ... Uh, I think nineteen years professionally? It's expired now, but I was an RHCE back when that was moderately meaningful. I am familiar with the concepts, just had only barely heard of the tool.
I mostly was hoping to make someone laugh with my misconstruement of the classic catchphrase.
Thank you for the explanations though!
In stardate 42761, war was beginning.
Picard: What happen?
Worf: Somebody set us up the probe.
Riker: We get signal.
Picard: What !
Riker: Main screen turn on.
Picard: It's you !!
BORG: How are you individuals !!
BORG: All your distinctiveness are belong to us.
BORG: You are on the way to assimilation.
Picard: What you say !!
BORG: You have no chance to resist make your time.
BORG: Ha ha ha ha ....
Riker: Captain !!
Picard: Take off every 'Voyager'!!
Picard: You know what you doing.
Picard: Move 'Voyager'.
Picard: For great genocide.
I did name the server borg-cube and alias comply='sudo' because I'm a child.