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DarylZero on May 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server

> - "RAID is not a backup" primarily because "you could rm -rf". ZFS snapshots cover that failure mode to the same extent that synchronization with offsite does

Not really. You need to be synchronizing to a _write-only_ backup archive. A local ZFS snapshot can be deleted locally.

(Also fire, compromise, police confiscation, etc.)

aqfamnzc on May 30, 2022 [–]

> You need to be synchronizing to a _write-only_ backup archive.

For my write-only backup needs, this free service known as S4 works wonderfully:

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

(This is a joke.)

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