alt Hacker NewsAll my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up. A boundary must be drawn somewhere and this is one of many reasonable boundaries. As I understand it, the backup isn't "inside" the volume but is attached to it so that deleting the volume deletes the backups.
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theshrike79 • yesterday at 9:19 PM
Can we at least agree to draw the line so that if a single call can delete the live data AND all backups, they shouldn't be called "backups", but rather snapshots?
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>All my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up.
Unless the commenter was backing up their entire universe, this comment is a non sequitur.