Comment on Backups made easy: btrfs + snapper + snapborg

• HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You misunderstood my question, because what you said is true either way with borg.

  The question is, what is the advantage of backing up the whole subvolume “block device” vs just / file structure.

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  • totikom@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Backing up via snapborg allows you to see file structure, because actually it is a file-based backup. snapper here allows me to separate snapshot creation from actual backups.

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  • Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh i see.

    that is a good point. Being about the mount the borg repo and pull out a specific file is very useful. Not sure I would do it as a bloc device since I don’t think there is an easy way to see specific files.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Metadata.

    You get the exact structure, you get the correct dates/times/permissions.

    Theres a vast difference between even what rsync -p gives you VS what a snap gets you, especially the versioned files.

    It’s the difference between a git repo and a zip file.

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