Qcow2 is great for use with vms but I think is actually underrated otherwise. I use it to back up external disks, usb sticks etc. Because the resulting qcow2 i

Qcow2 is great for use with vms but I think is actually underrated otherwise. I use it to back up external disks, usb sticks etc. Because the resulting qcow2 images are sparse and compressed they use less storage which is great for backups.