I'm a happy user.<p>I don't have a very complicated setup: a daily rsync cron job from my workstation to my Synology NAS, and a daily cron job from my NAS to rsync.net. I told rsync.net to notify me if I stop uploading data for more than 7 days.<p>I could use borg, rclone, restic, etc. but rsync is used <i>everywhere</i>, not just backups, so it's a pretty safe choice for long term storage IMO. (I was surprised to learn that rsync is only 26 years old)<p>That's the extend of my backup system and I'm pretty happy with it. Sadly, I haven't had the chance to put it to the test, one day if I feel brave enough I'll format my hard drive and see if my backup strategy forgot anything :-)
A big fan and a regular user of rsync.net here. I've used their borg offering on a number of occasions for myself and companies I worked with. I highly recommend them for their pricing and excellent support.<p><a href="https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html</a>
ZFS backup is the attractive part of this service. But that’s $60/month for 5TB. It’s quite expensive, even accounting for a $5/month full time VPS (enough RAM and CPU for ZFS receive). The ZFS offering was better until recently where the minimum storage was substantially increased.<p>On the other hand, for non-ZFS backups, there is Backblaze and other cheap storage.<p>It’s hard to make sense of rsync.net these days.
<a href="https://rsync.net/products/restic.html" rel="nofollow">https://rsync.net/products/restic.html</a> advertises that rsync.net supports restic in append-only mode, but it doesn't, and when I emailed support, they acknowledged that this didn't work.<p>I'm surprised the docs are still up. I've seen others on HN mention this too: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26508338" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26508338</a>
I'm amazed that rsync is not a registred trademark, internationally [1] or in Australia [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/quick/result?q=rsync" rel="nofollow">https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/quick/re...</a>
I'm not sure why link to the front page of rsync.net when there's no new update, but for anyone considering rsync, one thing to note is that they have other products for incredible prices.
What's the advantage of this over Hetzner Storage Box[0]? Seems to be the better option if I don't go into petabyte scale...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-box</a>
I’ve been with SpiderOak for a while and am considering dropping it (the client is buggy and the company seems to have moved on to other services, letting this die). I’ve seen rsync.net posted here before, and I’ve also seen rsync (rsync.net’s founder’s HN account) comment here often.<p>One thing I would like to see on rsync.net is a single page that shows the different prices for a specific chosen storage capacity, including the (special) borg account pricing. Perhaps a separate page for the “HN Readers discount” (at rsync.net/hn, maybe?) too? Trawling through older order links with specific codes posted on HN seems a bit tedious (and likely not reliable since those could be outdated).
(0 experience in offsite backups so apologies if this question seems a bit dumb)<p>I'm confused - can this be used as a simple cloud storage platform, or are there limits on how often you can upload/download data? If I can SSH into it at any time, why not use this over other storage providers?
Wow - this came and went on the front page of HN yesterday and we had no idea.<p>Thank you to everyone for your kind words - I will personally look over the discussion thread today, a day late, and see if there are any questions I can answer.
Thank you rsync.net -- the zfs filesystem / managed service from a team that administers their own hardware give me peace of mind knowing my customers data (which is champion nowadays) is safe.<p>Look forward to using you more!