Yes, seriously. I understand your suggestion, but that seems to cost the same amount plus some hours of my time. And, the data is on a VPS, which is not under

Yes, seriously. I understand your suggestion, but that seems to cost the same amount plus some hours of my time. And, the data is on a VPS, which is not under my roof (or a trusted persons roof). And I get another monthly bill. I'm a user, this is what I want :) Edit: Also, it should be easy to load the remote drive first locally with your dataset, before you drive to the summer cottage, so you don't have to wait days/weeks for the backup to be up to date.