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We switched to use the https://www.borgbackup.org/ software, which does deduplication, and rsync.net offers special lower pricing https://rsync.net/products/attic.html Note the "There is NO borg specific technical support or integration engineering. You're here because you're an expert." disclaimer.

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We're excited about both (borg is also built into our platform). We're tending to steer people to borg for "plain old backup" and saving rclone for the interesting use-cases that involve platform-to-platform data transfer ...

How about restic?

So for some reason I am just discovering borg (been an rsync.net customer since 2014), currently all my data is GPG encrypted on the client side, so database dumps, files and server logs. I have a custom script that encrypts all files, then rsyncs them to rsync.net, if I need them, rsync them back to a local machine and decrypt using GPG. A drawn out process that seems quite antiquated, especially seeing as my need to access these backups is maybe once per year. It would seem from initial (quick) reading, borg just basically makes this whole process easier and arguably even more secure?

It certainly makes the process easier, although if you have done what you describe properly, I don't know that it makes it more secure ...

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