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Life & fun · July 28, 2015

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Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH

rsync.net offers secure cloud storage on an open standards ZFS and SSH platform for offsite backup and disaster recovery

Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH launched on July 28, 2015 with 59 votes, #1,277 of 4,208 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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rsync.net provides cloud storage built on ZFS and accessible via SSH for offsite backup and disaster recovery. The service specializes in ZFS snapshots and native ZFS send and receive functionality, allowing users to efficiently transfer data to their platform. Running on FreeBSD with raidz3 arrays, rsync.net targets users who need secure, standards-based cloud storage with advanced backup capabilities and high data resilience.

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If you're not sure what this means, our product is Not For You . In 2012 rsync.net transitioned to ZFS as the base of its cloud storage platform. [1] In addition to enhanced data safety and resiliency [2] , ZFS allowed us to offer snapshots of user accounts on any schedule. The obvious next step was to offer ZFS send and receive, over SSH, to our platform. [3] We are the only cloud storage provider offering native zfs send and receive. [1] We run ZFS on FreeBSD [2] Our conservatively sized raidz3 arrays have a 99.9999% resiliency. [3] Arstechnica reviewed our zfs send/recv functions:…from rsync.net

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