It's really not. It takes about the same amount of time to add an rsync job to my crontab as it does to click through the backup scheduling options in the Linod

It's really not. It takes about the same amount of time to add an rsync job to my crontab as it does to click through the backup scheduling options in the Linode control panel. A lot of people here have fallen for the cloud marketing efforts. Nobody is saving any time.