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Clarify rclone-over-SSH docs

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Also added a link to S. Ruderich's blog post explaining append-only
repos using rclone and SSH.
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@ -567,7 +567,17 @@ rclone e.g. via SSH on a server, for example:
.. code-block:: console
$ restic -o rclone.program="ssh user@host rclone" -r rclone:b2:foo/bar
$ restic -o rclone.program="ssh user@remotehost rclone" -r rclone:b2:foo/bar
With these options, restic works with local files. It uses rclone and
credentials stored on ``remotehost`` to communicate with B2. All data (except
credentials) is encrypted/decrypted locally, then sent/received via
``remotehost`` to/from B2.
A more advanced version of this setup forbids specific hosts from removing
files in a repository. See the `blog post by Simon Ruderich
<https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/append-only-backups-with-restic-and-rclone>`_
for details.
The rclone command may also be hard-coded in the SSH configuration or the
user's public key, in this case it may be sufficient to just start the SSH