"Somehow, as a developer, I was able to avoid all that fancy cloud stuff." I am genuinely interested in what you think about things like this: ssh user@rs

"Somehow, as a developer, I was able to avoid all that fancy cloud stuff." I am genuinely interested in what you think about things like this: ssh user@rsync.net du -Ahd2 some/directory pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" or maybe even: ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd" Setting aside these "rsync.net tricks", I think you should look into the 'borg'[1][2] backup tool. It has become the de facto standard for remote backups because it does everything that rsync does (efficient, changes only backups) but also produces strongly encrypted remote backup sets that only you have a key to ... [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/