Duplicacy and snapshots?

Hi I’m having trouble understanding how snapshots work in Duplicacy. From the header support with all the commands, it looks like perhaps all backups are snapshots??

(As an aside how does Duplicacy handle symlinks?)

Yes, each snapshot is independent, while also being deduplicated. You can read more on the design in this IEEE paper: duplicacy/duplicacy_paper.pdf at master · gilbertchen/duplicacy · GitHub

Duplicacy follows first level symlinks only, this allows to create a folder with a bunch of symlinks to the heterogeneous stuff you want to backup.