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+As mentioned in [#421](https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/issues/421), the `weed backup` command is broken now. The recommended way is to use `rsync`.
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 The most important thing for storage is to keep data safe and not losing them. It gives you a comfort of thought that your data is safely backup.
 
 However, we do not want to always copy the whole data files over. We want to do it incrementally.