Snapshots arenât backup. No question.
Snapshots are great for solving accidental oopses, and for getting consistent backups that reflect a single point in time. But they arenât backups. If the HDD or SSD dies snapshots donât help. If the file system gets corrupted snapshots donât help. If the file data becomes corrupt snapshots donât help (since they only store a single copy of any version of a file).
So snapshots are no substitute for backups. I run btrfs and I do backups, and I sync those backups to a remote location (look up 3-2-1 backup).
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
unskilled5117@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I canât speak for btrfs, but with zfs you usually are advised to send the snapshots off to another location too. That usecase is highly supported.