Depends how you do your backups. If you do them by replicating. They are both. See litestream [1]. With SQLite this is even more obvious as a database is just

Depends how you do your backups. If you do them by replicating. They are both. See litestream [1]. With SQLite this is even more obvious as a database is just a file (or three in the case of WAL). Which means you can replicate to not just another machine (or any file system) but much more resilient object storage like S3 (most cloud provider offer S3 compatible object storage). - [1] https://litestream.io/how-it-works/ https://litestream.io/how-it-works/ I think you might need to rethink your idée fixe.