I currently have a cronjob set up to copy the entire datastore directory from PBS to an S3 compatible storage platform. Just tested restoring by installing PBS on a new machine and downloading the datastore from the bucket. Works almost flawlessly and backups are verified and restorable.
The main downsides is that it's another manual thing to maintain, doesn't provide notifications, and PBS has no idea it wasn't the one to create the backups in the first place, so the verification checkmarks will show as good, even if they aren't. Just have to run a verify job again after the download
The main downsides is that it's another manual thing to maintain, doesn't provide notifications, and PBS has no idea it wasn't the one to create the backups in the first place, so the verification checkmarks will show as good, even if they aren't. Just have to run a verify job again after the download