diff --git a/doc/030_preparing_a_new_repo.rst b/doc/030_preparing_a_new_repo.rst
index a74e2563c..7d865d9a5 100644
--- a/doc/030_preparing_a_new_repo.rst
+++ b/doc/030_preparing_a_new_repo.rst
@@ -447,7 +447,10 @@ For debugging rclone, you can set the environment variable ``RCLONE_VERBOSE=2``.
 The rclone backend has two additional options:
 
  * ``-o rclone.program`` specifies the path to rclone, the default value is just ``rclone``
- * ``-o rclone.args`` allows setting the arguments passed to rclone, by default this is ``serve restic --stdio``
+ * ``-o rclone.args`` allows setting the arguments passed to rclone, by default this is ``serve restic --stdio --b2-hard-delete --drive-use-trash=false``
+
+The reason why the two last parameters (``--b2-hard-delete`` and
+``--drive-use-trash=false``) can be found in the corresponding GitHub `issue #1657`_.
 
 In order to start rclone, restic will build a list of arguments by joining the
 following lists (in this order): ``rclone.program``, ``rclone.args`` and as the
@@ -459,14 +462,14 @@ So, calling restic like this
 .. code-block:: console
 
     $ restic -o rclone.program="/path/to/rclone" \
-      -o rclone.args="serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1M --verbose" \
+      -o rclone.args="serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1M --b2-hard-delete --verbose" \
       -r rclone:b2:foo/bar
 
 runs rclone as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ /path/to/rclone serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1M --verbose b2:foo/bar
+    $ /path/to/rclone serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1M --b2-hard-delete --verbose b2:foo/bar
 
 Manually setting ``rclone.program`` also allows running a remote instance of
 rclone e.g. via SSH on a server, for example:
@@ -487,6 +490,7 @@ repository specification):
 .. _rclone: https://rclone.org/
 .. _configure: https://rclone.org/docs/
 .. _configured with environment variables: https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables
+.. _issue #1657: https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1657#issuecomment-377707486
 
 Password prompt on Windows
 **************************
diff --git a/internal/backend/rclone/backend.go b/internal/backend/rclone/backend.go
index c37576ba7..e19cfa6c8 100644
--- a/internal/backend/rclone/backend.go
+++ b/internal/backend/rclone/backend.go
@@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ func New(cfg Config) (*Backend, error) {
 
 		args = append(args, a...)
 	} else {
-		args = append(args, "serve", "restic", "--stdio")
+		args = append(args,
+			"serve", "restic", "--stdio",
+			"--b2-hard-delete", "--drive-use-trash=false")
 	}
 
 	// finally, add the remote
diff --git a/internal/backend/rclone/config.go b/internal/backend/rclone/config.go
index c9a309282..c2c5d88f9 100644
--- a/internal/backend/rclone/config.go
+++ b/internal/backend/rclone/config.go
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 // Config contains all configuration necessary to start rclone.
 type Config struct {
 	Program     string `option:"program" help:"path to rclone (default: rclone)"`
-	Args        string `option:"args"    help:"arguments for running rclone (default: serve restic --stdio)"`
+	Args        string `option:"args"    help:"arguments for running rclone (default: serve restic --stdio --b2-hard-delete --drive-use-trash=false)"`
 	Remote      string
 	Connections uint `option:"connections" help:"set a limit for the number of concurrent connections (default: 5)"`
 }