Do CDP and Snapshots mean the end of nightly backup jobs?

[StoopidMonkey]

I've heard some suggestion that the advancements in CDP streams, journaling, and snapshot technology are moving things towards the "end" of traditional nightly backups in favor of a tighter, more continuous stream of recovery points, at least for the short term (7 days or so?). I imagine there still may be backup copy jobs saving daily & weekly copies off the primary "stream" backups. Has anybody else heard something similar?

[Gostev]

Most environment simply won't be able to do streaming backups for more than a few percent of their workloads due to how resource-intensive they are... so classic backup for the rest of workloads is not going anywhere.

And yes, there's still 3-2-1 rule too and few will want their secondary copies to be as expensive as primary. Not to mention archiving for long-term retention.

CDP is just one of many tools to achieve specific data protection objectives... but not one tool out there is of "one size fits all" type.