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I don't really understand the advantage of backing up the whole btrfs volume.
With snapshots it costs nothing if the OS files don't change much
You misunderstood my question, because what you said is true either way with borg.
The question is, what is the advantage of backing up the whole subvolume "block device" vs just / file structure.
Backing up via snapborg allows you to see file structure, because actually it is a file-based backup.
snapperhere allows me to separate snapshot creation from actual backups.