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by cl3misch 620 days ago
I managed to find the source for my statement:

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-i-c...

It is not "heavily" discouraged. But you have to pay extra attention to perform a clean copy of the borg repo's files, and ideally check both instances regularly for integrity. I would assume it's easy to forget validating the "cold storage" copy of your borg repo in practice.