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> The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.

Sure, having other options is good: https://min.io/

Minio is great! I use it! But spinning up and managing yet another service when you're already a small shop adds more barriers to entry. Maybe find an already s3-compatible store (like Wasabi) or find something cheap and easy to spin up that's supported by the tool (like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)

How do you restore DO Spaces files? Real backups are freaking hard.

How do you verify your off-site backups? Do you periodically download the entire backup set and bit compare to the originals? That sounds like a lot of bandwidth usage, not to mention costs.

Note that you can also use Backblaze's B2 cloud storage with Restic. It's pretty cheap and was easy for me to configure.

what considerations go into choosing between one option and another? Is there a blog post I could read on the topic?