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by DarylZero 1477 days ago
> - "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.)

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> 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.)