"While I know of some really good cloud providers, such as rsync.net and Tarsnap, I recommend that you never trust cloud providers blindly." This is very good

"While I know of some really good cloud providers, such as rsync.net and Tarsnap, I recommend that you never trust cloud providers blindly." This is very good advice. That being said, humans need heuristics and shortcuts to aid in decision-making. I hope the fact that rsync.net has been doing this work since 2001 is helpful in that regard. ... "There exist some really cool open source backup solutions such as Borg, Restic and duplicity, but you should never rely solely on these "complex" solutions. These tools work really great, until they don't! In the past I have lost data to duplicity and other tools." I think this is very good advice as well - and that is coming from someone who has whole-heartedly endorsed 'borg' as a backup tool and regularly recommends it. It is the "holy grail of backups"[1] after all ... It's also a magic black box for most users and would be difficult to work out failures. The safest and (in my opinion) most useful workflow is to back up your data locally to some kind of NAS or fileserver using plain old rsync and then back up that fileserver to rsync.net (or whomever) using the fancy borg tool. Now you have quick and simple local restores but still have a backup in the cloud that requires zero trust in the provider. [1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/