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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
Subject: Re: Encrypted software RAID1 with Debian Stretch
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:22:06 +0500
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:02:31 +0100
Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> I would never consider snapshots on the same filesystem to be a backup
> of anything, except possibly as a defence against 'oh whoops I rm'ed the
> wrong tree'.

No one proposed that. The scenario is that the backup server would have its
rsync destination dir (from multiple other systems) periodically snapshotted,
providing a historic view of what it contained 1-2-3 months ago. Just like
"bup" does in userspace, I guess? -- or like rdiff-backup did, which I used
before. But now we have that directly in filesystem, no need to cling to
userspace crutches anymore.

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With respect,
Roman