Is rsync.net a good service for backups?

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fart_pickle@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I’m happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I’m using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I’ve been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to store my backups. Is rsync.net worth it? According to the “internet” it’s a good service but wanted to double check. What do you think about it?

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Deckweiss@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
hetzner storage box is cheaper afaik and works the same

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- UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you ask me, I say Hetzner is a seriously underrated provider. I love using their services.
  
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- merthyr1831@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Seeing all the hetzner mentions made me finally look into it and
  
  yep, they seem to be cheaper than alternatives without getting into shady territory and
  
  pretty easy to set up! I finally have an offsite backup of my home server and it only took me like an hour to do
  
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juergen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have been using it for a few months, and it is working well. By default, you get daily snapshots, with a retention of 7 days; I believe you can buy more.

rsync.net is no-frills remote storage that gets out of the way of whatever you want to do. In my case, this is rsync over ssh, but they also support borg.

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verstra@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve opened up the pricing page, and it seems it is much more expensive then their mainstream competitor Backblaze. For a terabyte of backup for a month, rsync.net would charge 1024*0.012 = 12$, while Backblaze would charge 6$.

What am I missing?

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knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use it. No complaints here. They’ve recently reduced their rates. The alternatives are more involved and more expensive. I put my remote Borg repos on rsync.net

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emptiestplace@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You cannot use rsync with Backblaze, nor zfs send | recv. If these are important to you, rsync.net might be worthwhile. That’s it, really.

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Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Any reason not to use borg base? They specialize in borg backups.

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johntash@eviltoast.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I like rsync.net. They offer reduced pricing for using restic/borg too.

I’m not sure how many years I’ve used them, but I never had any issues. The speeds also seem better than at least b2.

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smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My favourite aspect of their service is the super lightweight website that works with almost no scripts.

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