Re: NAS Backup solution?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

But the snapshotting system has no idea what updates applications might be
in the progress of doing to their data files.

Well, I do not know what a given application might or might not do. In any
case it is not relevant (only) to borg, but to any backup system incl.
rsync, so I do not know why this question is asked in the context of borg.

If you want to backup your application data, then dump or persist the data
first. This is what I've seen/used and AFAIK is the standard in various
backup solutions. However it is irrelevant question in the borg context.