[Borgbackup] Borg vs. full/incremental backup

[Bzzzz]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 12:41:27 +0200
Markus Schönhaber <borgbackup at list-post.ddt-consult.de> wrote:

> As I understand it, that's different for a Borg repository. If a chunk
> in a repository gets corrupted, all files in all archives in this
> repository that reference this chunk are affected.
> Is my understanding correct?

Yes.

> If yes, how do you cope with this / is there a "best practice"? Create
> multiple repositories? Use them in turn? Use them in parallel?
> Something else entirely?

Usually, you don't limit yourself to only one backup in one place and
you want your backup data to be fully checked, so using a file system
like ZFS, that ensure the redundancy AND the integrity of this data is
something that you should do.

Jean-Yves