@hickinbottoms I know with B2 is is possible to take bucket snapshots. You could take a bucket snapshot and then start the rclone. If the rclone succeeds, you could delete the snapshot. If it fails, you would still have the B2 snapshot of the restic repository to revert back to in the event of disaster. I haven’t done any digging, but I’m sure there are APIs exposed so that you could script something like this.
@eblau – thanks for the pointer, I’ll take a look at that in slower time. I’d though about filesystem snapshots to solve that as I’m running the remote end on my own hardware.