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		IshKebab 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023) I used Borg for years and it's good, but the fact that you can only backup to SSH is quite limiting. I eventually found Restic & Rustic which are much better and support way more backends: https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/comparison-restic.html#supported-...

BitPirate 9 months ago | [–]

Borg 2.0 (unreleased) is moving in a similar direction with borgstore:

https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html

pavel_lishin 9 months ago | [–]

Can't you transfer the resulting archive however you want? rsync, ftp, USB stick glued to a bird, tattooed onto a shaved man's head, etc?

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