I started with this setup and added borgmatic to my home server. Borg and borgbase are awesome.

If you stop the subscription, you don’t get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it’s not locked out by a license check.

Check out this rather extreme example: REVS on the BBC micro https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo?si=5UWDROP2HtGQSiut

Thanks for the info, I was not aware