zfs snapshot vs bectl export for replication

While explaining how I manage boot environments to a friend, I tapped the bectl man page to get a couple of facts straight, and noticed that bectl (and beadm) can export and import a given boot environment to a file. Currently, I am doing a weekly snapshot of <pool>/ROOT/default, which I am then replicating to a dataset on my NAS.

Does anyone know the effective differences between bectl export and zfs snapshot on a BE? Are they two different ways of doing the same thing? Are there any significant pros or cons to doing it one way or the other?


Thanks...
 
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