I managed to find the source for my statement: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-copy-or-synchronize-my-repo-to-another-location https

I managed to find the source for my statement: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-copy-or-synchronize-my-repo-to-another-location https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-c... It is not "heavily" discouraged. But you have to pay extra attention to perform a clean copy of the borg repo's files, and ideally check both instances regularly for integrity. I would assume it's easy to forget validating the "cold storage" copy of your borg repo in practice.