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I'd backup to a more reliable filesystem than btrfs. In my experience you will eventually randomly lose data with btrfs. I have lost all trust in it.

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Backups are by definition redundant, however, btrfs is still the only Linux filesystem with its featureset. Let me know when ZFS on Linux supports shrinking or cloning file ranges.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494370

"raid" 1/0 and 10 are stable, others are not. Theoretically btrfs can protect against bit-rot where other fs's typically don't.

Theoretically that might be the goal. In my experience data melts away like butter on btrfs.

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