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There's rsync.net which very explicitly supports rsync/zfs over SSH

I have an account with rsync.net and I like them a lot for their Unix-friendly services. However, I unfortunately have to recommend that you NOT use rsync.net if you are on a Comcast/Xfinity cable modem.

rsync.net has some kind of problem with the "Powerboost" feature. The first 10 megabytes of a transfer are fast as hell, then it drops to ~150kB/s. Have fun backing up gigabytes at that speed. There is something wrong with their traffic shaping. After much back-and-forth their tech support basically threw up their hands and gave up.

Do Comcast throttle torrents for you? Perhaps the traffic to rsync in some way looks like torrents to them. Or like spam/DOS or something like that. Or like a competitor. The things I've read about Comcast are not pretty, alas.

No, my torrents routinely saturate my connection. It's definitely rsync.net. In the past they have tweaked their settings and been able to get it to work, but it has never stuck.

I have 640 GB to backup, that would be 52 USD per month on rsync.net.

Dropbox takes 9.9 USD per month for 1 TB

I use rsync.net with borg. Works great.

They have a dedicated account for borg/attic: http://rsync.net/products/attic.html

There's also restic, which works similarly, but has native support for cloud storage: https://restic.github.io/ - sadly it's claims of being efficient are rather undermined by the continued lack of compression support.

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