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Here's my "me too" — I've been happily using rclone for things like photo archives (together with my small consistency checker to check file hashes for corruption https://github.com/jwr/ccheck). I also use Arq Backup with B2 as the destination. This gives me very reasonable storage costs and backups I can access and test regularly.

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"me too" - rclone with Azure Archive tier for last-resort backups. I like that rclone doesn't tie me to one storage provider, and I'm not sure why anyone would use the linked project over rclone.

As mentioned in another reply below, I found these issues with rclone, perhaps you can tell if I'm missing something:

- It will not create archives by default, so potentially upload a lot of files (just like rsync). There are a few workarounds in the documentation to mitigate the cost.

- It cannot do restore of Deep Archive data

Edit: Can do restore, but it's a manual step.

Sorry, I don't know about that, it just does what I want out of the box.

With backblaze B2 both of those are not an issue. So not sure.

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