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Right now I'm using Dropbox, One Drive and iDrive, none of which are that great. I've looked at tons of others.

Your prices aren't offensive, but they're not cheap.

I have a need to store several terabytes of PDFs - mainly old magazines that are in the public domain, or where the copyright is essentially lost. Are your systems going to scan every item that gets uploaded and then erase my account and all my files if one PDF comes up as having a current copyright issue?

I ask in all seriousness because this happens regularly to those of us on

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

see, e.g.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Degoo/comments/iixlse/degoo_copyrig...

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"Are your systems going to scan every item that gets uploaded and then erase my account and all my files if one PDF comes up as having a current copyright issue?"

This is who we are:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

We were the first provider to publish a Warrant Canary and it appears we're one of the few that still update it.

So, no.

No, we do not scan accounts for any purpose whatsoever.

Please review our extremely short and simple privacy policy:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/privacy.html

... and do be in touch about the HN readers discount.

EDIT: rsync.net has, in the past, donated a lot of resources to Jason Scott and Team Archive for archival purposes just like you are describing. I am also, personally, a sustaining donor of Internet Archive. All of this to say: I am very interested in this archival work you are doing and would like to help support it - please do be in touch ...

I've been curious - has the warrant canary idea been endorsed by anyone's legal counsel? I can't tell if it's a real legal loophole, or a letter-of-the-law thing that a judge would treat as equivalent to revealing a warrant.

Seems like it's an open question.

> In September 2014, U.S. security researcher Moxie Marlinspike wrote that "every lawyer I've spoken to has indicated that having a 'canary' you remove or choose not to update would likely have the same legal consequences as simply posting something that explicitly says you've received something."

> ..That said, case law specific to the United States would render the covert continuance of warrant canaries subject to constitutionality challenges.[citation needed] West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette and Wooley v. Maynard rule the Free Speech Clause prohibits compelling someone to speak against one's wishes; this can easily be extended to prevent someone from being compelled to lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Is it possible to use rclone as a backup tool? With the usual features like compression, e2e e, de-duplication, incremental.

I don't think so, but HashBackup (I'm the author) has all that and has an interface to rclone if you use a storage service that isn't supported natively.

Looking for personal backup and with GUI. Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29446135

We've been telling people to use 'borg' for several years now and it appears to have become the de facto standard for just what you're describing.

It has been described as "The Holy Grail" of backups:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

I use borg indeed, via Vorta. Also, I am a rsync.net customer (I think you should start with a smaller min storage for pay what you use, or keep it pure pwyu).

I am looking for another backup tool that backs up to an S3 storage destination and has a decent GUI (restic doesn’t have a GUI; relica doesn’t count; and borg doesn’t support s3). Since rclone has an experimental GUI I wondered.

Thank you for the excellent reply. Just the fact you are on HN answering queries is a reason alone to buy your services.

> https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/privacy.html

It says there that you don't use cookies, but to clarify, I assume you set a cookie when a user logs in?

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