• Lem453
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    5 days ago

    With snapshots it costs nothing if the OS files don’t change much

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lol
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      4 days 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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        3 days 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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        4 days 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.