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Fully agree, Borg is awesome. I wrote up how I'm using it here[1]. In short, borg backup to a local machine, and that machine uses rclone to copy the backups to an S3 bucket off-site. I've had multiple occasions to restore stuff successfully, and I never have to think about whether my data is retrievable.

[1]https://opensource.com/article/17/10/backing-your-machines-b...



You need to run “Borg check” once in a while to check and fix backup integrity errors. S3 egress fees will kill you!


There are several targets for borg that don't charge for traffic. Get off of AWS...




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