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Why not do both?
I use a script in cron that uses timestamps as snapshot names, and deletes old ones. Then I also take a snapshot with a timestamp right before doing anything dumb.
You could even make a script called
mksnap
that figures out what zfs/btfs you're in on the current folder and auto-snaps it.This is an option, but I really do not need periodic snapshots.