Well, not a noob, more like an idiot 😂 EDIT: Yes, on the same drive as my Home folder, etc. And yes, technically they’re snapshots, not backups.

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    3 days ago

    Best thing that I’ve ever done was to write automate a weekly script that makes a ZFS snapshot and then deletes any that are over a month old.

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      That’s a very good idea. Might wanna keep an additional yearly one too though, in case you don’t use the computer actively for a while and realize you have to go back more than a month at some point.

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        Ya, I offsite backup the entire zpool once a year at least. I have quarterly and yearly snapshots too.

        But the weeklies have saved me on several occasions, the others haven’t been needed yet.