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So just something to think about…

Unless you have a really high speed data connection… if you do then this doesn’t really apply to you. But let’s say you’re just someone with a typical home internet connection, and a home lab. You have several servers set up on that home lab, and, following best practices, you decide to make regular backups of your important data using 3 2 1 …

Be mindful of the fact that if you store your offsite backups in the cloud somewhere, and by cloud I mean another VPS, or something you access remotely… you’re going to spend a LOT of time restoring those backups from the cloud if you have a typical home internet connection.

I think they call it RTO (recovery time objective) in the disaster recovery world.

This is why you saw people doing stuff by hand during the crowd strike incident. Because it would have taken a lot longer to restore from backup.

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Yeah, it would be nothing like the 6Gbps you get restoring from a local external disk.
I dont use cloud for data., but I did resort recently to using pluggable external disks instead of USB drives. It improved the speed of rsync, but not clonezilla.
I suspect the compression in clonezilla is a limiting factor that holds it to well below expected disk speeds. If that is so, using clonezilla to or from the cloud may not be any slower than its local performance.

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