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Hmmm nope... avoiding walled gardens and niche ecosystems (like NixOS or Fedora Silverblue) is far more important to me. I view immutability/reproducibility as forced memes pushed by IBM/RedHat codelets and VCs degens trying to make a buck by reinventing the wheel, or by enslaving bending wagies with more slop so they can justify their miserable existence.
Nobody serious about data integrity and data permanence should rely on their backups to some niche and poorly documented or tested silver bullet. Here, I choose diamond solid stability.
Equally important, I seek maximum portability in my backup infrastructure. Something like rsnapshot checks most of my needs and is an ubiquitous, reliable, and well time-tested tool you'll find everywhere. This way, I can move 99% of my setup and backups across all Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, macOS, even WSL or Haiku!) with minimal tweaking, anytime I want. To me, most files, including configuration files and dotfiles, should be treated as OS-agnostic. You might see this as a too-philosophical stance, but I see it as a practical one, where my backups and configs can survive for decades, so for once I get some meaningful shit done in this prison we call reality.