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rsync.net vs SimpleBackups

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of rsync.net and SimpleBackups built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 12 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose rsync.net if…

Holding a lot of data cheaply and reading it back for nothing: 1.5 cents per GB a month, falling to 0.75 cents above 100 TB, with no egress charge on a restore and unlimited email and phone support at every size.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose SimpleBackups if…

Backing up many different things on a schedule you choose and being told when one stops working: 5 jobs at $49 a month rising to 100 at $299, with unlimited storage of your own alongside whatever the plan includes.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • rsync.net: You have less than 800 GB to protect. The minimum order is a floor rather than a discount threshold, so a small estate pays for capacity it is not using — BorgBase starts at $2 a month and gives 10 GB away.
  • SimpleBackups: You protect one or two things. The free plan allows a single job with 1 GB, and the next step is $49 — Snapshooter covers three resources for $14 and five times that for $39.

4 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

Criterionrsync.netSimpleBackups
Pricing
Entry paid planNo plan fee. The floor is an 800 GB minimum order at 1.5 cents per GB per month; the page states the minimum and the rate separately and does not multiply them out.$49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs.
Pricing modelPer gigabyte held, per month, tiered by total volume with no contract. The same features are offered at every tier and at every location — what a larger commitment buys is a lower rate, longer snapshot retention, physical media shipment and integration engineering, not a different product.Per backup job, in plan-sized blocks of 1, 5, 20 and 100, with storage included at each step and unlimited bring-your-own storage alongside it. The tier also sets how often a job may run — 12 hours, 1 hour, then 5 minutes — so the plan buys recovery point objective as much as it buys capacity.
Data
Backup retention7 daily snapshots below 10 TB, and 7 days plus 4 weeks above it. Snapshots are taken and held by rsync.net rather than scheduled by the customer, though the page says every account can set a custom schedule.Customer-defined on every paid tier, described only as flexible retention and schedule rather than as a fixed number of days.
Compliance
SOC 2Not SOC 2. Both US locations — San Diego and Denver — are SSAE16 certified with zero exceptions as of May 2015, SSAE16 being the older attestation standard SOC 1 reports are issued under. The company says the certification is not relevant outside the US and holds its Hong Kong and Zurich sites to the same standards without it. Full compliance reports are available, as are in-person datacentre visits.Listed as a feature of the $299 Max plan rather than as a property of the company, which is an unusual way to present an attestation and is recorded as the page frames it.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

rsync.net
No plan fee. The floor is an 800 GB minimum order at 1.5 cents per GB per month; the page states the minimum and the rate separately and does not multiply them out.
SimpleBackups
$49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

rsync.net
Per gigabyte held, per month, tiered by total volume with no contract. The same features are offered at every tier and at every location — what a larger commitment buys is a lower rate, longer snapshot retention, physical media shipment and integration engineering, not a different product.
SimpleBackups
Per backup job, in plan-sized blocks of 1, 5, 20 and 100, with storage included at each step and unlimited bring-your-own storage alongside it. The tier also sets how often a job may run — 12 hours, 1 hour, then 5 minutes — so the plan buys recovery point objective as much as it buys capacity.
Sources (2) →

Backup retention

rsync.net
7 daily snapshots below 10 TB, and 7 days plus 4 weeks above it. Snapshots are taken and held by rsync.net rather than scheduled by the customer, though the page says every account can set a custom schedule.
SimpleBackups
Customer-defined on every paid tier, described only as flexible retention and schedule rather than as a fixed number of days.
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

rsync.net
Not SOC 2. Both US locations — San Diego and Denver — are SSAE16 certified with zero exceptions as of May 2015, SSAE16 being the older attestation standard SOC 1 reports are issued under. The company says the certification is not relevant outside the US and holds its Hong Kong and Zurich sites to the same standards without it. Full compliance reports are available, as are in-person datacentre visits.
SimpleBackups
Listed as a feature of the $299 Max plan rather than as a property of the company, which is an unusual way to present an attestation and is recorded as the page frames it.
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

Free tierSimpleBackups: Yes
What the free plan includesSimpleBackups: The Basic plan at $0: one backup job and 1 GB of included storage, with your own storage connectable without limit.
Egress over allowancersync.net: None. Restoring is not charged for, which is the difference that matters in this category: a backup you cannot afford to read is not a backup.
Storage pricersync.net: 1.5 cents per GB per month up to 9 TB, falling to 1.25 cents from 10 TB and 0.75 cents from 100 TB. Priced in cents rather than dollars, which is the unit the page uses throughout.
Support on entry paid planrsync.net: Unlimited email and phone support on every tier, with a 24/7 hotline added above 100 TB. Support is not a paid add-on at any volume.
HIPAArsync.net: Yes, and they will sign a Business Associate Agreement — the thing that actually matters, since HIPAA obligations flow to the vendor only through a BAA. They also document a Massachusetts 201 CMR 17 data security plan, and publish a separate full HIPAA Compliance Statement.
GDPR / data residencyrsync.net: Absolute by location: data never leaves the geographic location chosen at signup, and the page names Zurich specifically — choose it and not one bit of data leaves Switzerland. Account contact and payment details are held only by full-time employees and shared with nobody, the company having no partners, affiliates or parent.
PCI DSSrsync.net: Updated quarterly, with overall and site-specific documentation supplied on request. The page is unusually blunt about it — it dismisses the standard as worthless before confirming they maintain it anyway, on the grounds that customers still have reporting requirements to meet.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: rsync.net or SimpleBackups?

rsync.net: No plan fee. The floor is an 800 GB minimum order at 1.5 cents per GB per month; the page states the minimum and the rate separately and does not multiply them out.

SimpleBackups: $49 a month for Lite, which includes 5 backup jobs, 50 GB of storage and a floor of 12 hours between runs.

Should I choose rsync.net or SimpleBackups?

Pick rsync.net if Holding a lot of data cheaply and reading it back for nothing: 1.5 cents per GB a month, falling to 0.75 cents above 100 TB, with no egress charge on a restore and unlimited email and phone support at every size.

Pick SimpleBackups if Backing up many different things on a schedule you choose and being told when one stops working: 5 jobs at $49 a month rising to 100 at $299, with unlimited storage of your own alongside whatever the plan includes.

Provider pages

rsync.netOffsite cloud storage for backups, billed by the gigabyte with ZFS snapshots and no egress charges.SimpleBackupsManaged backup automation for servers, databases and storage, billed by the number of backup jobs.

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