Happy to discuss any aspect of the Q4 notes, or previous notes[1] throughout the day today.

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/

I love rsync.net. Have been using them for some time now. Though I'm quite a small fish and only use a few hundred GB on the borg plan.

Absolutely love your no nonsense approach to what you do. Loyal customer for years and no intention to leave. I talk about your service whenever someone will listen ;)

That restic workflow is very cool. Nice work! Happy customer.

just another happy customer, from so long ago I can't find my signup email anymore. very glad there are still companies who just do a thing well without trying to tie me up with them further or cross-sell or sell themselves or make the product worse.

keep up the good work!

We’re happy customers of rsync.net and totally recommend them. We love how simple and clear everything is — no fluff, just honest, practical service. It just works: reliable, functional, and easy to use. Perfect if you want something straightforward and trustworthy.

Radek (https://www.mydreams.cz)

As free advertisement to rsync.net, I also like the service and support.

I have not deleted any of my daily borg backups for many years, covering my laptop and some servers. Borg has an equivalent `borg serve` feature as detailed in the article.

I use borg mount every other week. After the initial config, you can just type:

  $ borg mount :: borg/

...and browse the full archive lazily. Most of the time I'm looking at the last entry, but I've done some historical searching once or twice.

Even though I count the rsync.net backup only once in the 3-2-1 backup rule, its geo-distributed under the hood, so there's also that.

I forgot to update the payment credit card once and got a few months of grace with periodic notices, but no service cut and excellent customer support.

I'm also fond of their stance on pretend standards, like PCI compliance: https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/pci.html

IIRC I created the account for use as a git-annex remote, but I've used it for archival and sshfs, which is very convenient.

Someone pointed out in another HN discussion that for the highest security it would be nice to have an independent service that accepted/pulled ZFS snapshot streams to apply to the backup datasets, as opposed to using ssh and risking local privilege escalations or relying entirely on ZFS user permissions.

Does anyone know of an existing service like this? Is it something rsync would consider hosting/providing? Currently to support sending encrypted ZFS snapshots to rsync.net I need to use the freebsd VM option with its own zpool.