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Understood. I might take a shot at this, so any idea you have from the top of your head on where to start would be appreciated!

i understand the use case: just have a wrapper that creates the repo if missing, and not fail otherwise. it could check if the directory exist, but that's an extra...

@rpodgorny agreed.

links to mentionned projects: - [snapraid](http://www.snapraid.it/) - backup and snapshot system with multiple redundant disk support - [zfec](https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec) - generic erasure coding (aka RAID-5 but with customizable number of copies)...

just found out about this which might be interesting for this use case: https://github.com/MarcoPon/SeqBox

borg has _some_ level of abstraction of remote repositories... there's currently only a single `RemoteRepository` implementation, and it hardcodes `ssh` in a bunch of place. we nevertheless have a list...

notice the similar issue in https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/136

@rmoriz your contribution would of course be welcome. bounties are organised on bountysource, in this case: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/24578298-borg-backup-to-amazon-s3-on-fuse the main problem with S3 and other cloud providers is that we can't...

here's the most original solution I have heard yet for "cloud" backups with borg: https://juliank.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/backing-up-with-borg-and-git-annex/ TL;DR: backup locally, then use git-annex (!) to backup to... well, anything. in this case,...

Well, that was the whole point wasn't it, encryption... Then again, it's unclear to me why they didn't use the built-in encryption. The whole setup, even with just rclone, also...