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rsync.net has a special discount when you use borg and "you're an expert" https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

We're looking to replace our self-written borg backup scripts with https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ which is a wrapper around borg.

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Hetzner Box offers are very affordable compared to the very high prices of rsync.net.

What are the practicalities of the '680 GB Minimum Order'? I would have expected you pay by how much you use (hence the price per GB), but the minimal order (the submission form however won't let you submit less than 100GB, so it's a bit confusing there's a mis-match?) seems slightly at odds with that.

(The FAQ doesn't seem to answer that)

Where does it say 680GB minimum? I looked but couldn’t find that.

ETA: found the 680GB minimum on the normal pricing page. So it’s 680 if you want a normal account, 100 for the “I know what I’m doing” account.

Ah, I must have clicked away to the main pricing page then thinking it was the same one...

TIL! Same for restic: https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html

As far as I can tell (as a years-long user of this), this is a generic "here's a server that supports SCP, go nuts" discount. You don't have to use it with Borg or Restic, they're just supported.

Notably, you can't reformat the drives to another filesystem (say btrfs)

Can you do that over SCP in general, without a full shell?

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