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Re:Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no rou... by mfincham on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:45PM (#26508338)
My first experience with rsync.net was very disappointing. To this day they still advertise “append-only mode” support for restic at https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html.

Their support people confirmed it doesn’t work (though they didn’t seem to understand why it would be fine for them to support it as advertised...) yet 6 months later they still advertise that they support it, even when I have e-mailed to remind them (and it still doesn’t work either) :(

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Re:Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no rou... by mfincham on Thursday March 18, 2021 @06:47PM (#26508346)
The tl;dr as to why it doesn’t work is that they blanket forbid calling “rclone serve”, which is required for “append-only” support in restic.

This doesn’t make sense given that the specific invocation of “rclone serve restic --stdio” doesn’t open any network sockets, it’s no less safe than e.g. “tar”

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