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> Replication is with rsync and borg, not snapshots.

I backup my files with borg, but I still use snapshots during the Borg backup to ensure files are not modified during the process

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Yeah, of course you should be doing that. I was just trying to say that people shouldn't pretend like having snapshot-based, filesystem-level replication alone (which can be a very efficient way of replicating data changes) is a good backup strategy.

If you don't rebuild the zfs volume on the backup computer aren't you left with a) unlimited incremental backups, or b) doing a full backup every x days?

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