[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

[Richard Pieri]

John Abreau wrote:
> It occurs to me that I'm thinking of LVM snapshots, and I'm assuming btrfs
> is a filesystem that has LVM-like functionality baked in.

That's correct.

Btrfs snapshots, like LVM and ZFS and Advfs and XFS and AFS snapshots 
all reside on the same medium as the original. Btrfs and Linux LVM are 
the odd ducks here being the ones that lack a native mechanism for 
replicating snapshots to other media.

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Rich P.