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Why is my entire home backed up?
There is a blank line in your list of files to backup. Inside the loop this means that $worth is empty, which in turn results in execution of this command:
cp -Rv /home/poor /run/media/poor/backup/
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How to replace btrfs root subvolume with received snapshot?
Whatever I received will be a new readonly subvolume, that's just how Btrfs works. And as Emmanuel hinted in the other answer, there might not be a clean and intuitive way to do it differently.
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Should Debian's backup account be used?
The backup user is used by two backup programs in Debian, AMANDA and Cedar Backup. The amanda-server README.Debian gives details, and in particular it instructs users to change the backup user’s login ...
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Should Debian's backup account be used?
The backup user has logins disabled by having its shell as /usr/sbin/nologin, and its home directory is /var/backups... which does not seem to be empty.
If you run sudo grep -r var/backups /etc, you'...
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