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bimbashrestha

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About bimbashrestha

I like writing software that makes the world better (even if it's just a tiny bit).

I'm a software engineer and founder (of blobbackup.com).

Feel free to contact me at "bimba@blobbackup.com".

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    Yoh can download the binaries if you create an account! I should also just put the new binaries on the release page. I'll do that soon

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    Comment #30590244

    Hey! Thanks for trying the app. I think you may have tried our original app (the original folder in the github repo). I need to clean up the Releases page. That version used a cust…

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    Comment #30582730

    Idk if you caught this but Blobbackup uses restic under the hood and I'm planning on adding support for other storages in the future.

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    Comment #30581725

    I think decentralized storage + Blobbackup could make for an interesting pairing. I'll make time to look into it.

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    Comment #30581312

    That's embarrassing... Thanks, I'll fix it:)

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    Comment #30581101

    Borg supports local and SFTP backups while Restic supports more (a lot more). S3, Google Cloud, B2, etc. In fact, they integrate with rclone so anything you can access using rclone…

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    Comment #30580773

    Ah good point. I've made a github issue for it (you'll find the company name and address there btw) [1]. We are actually working on a B2B offering right now (see the banner on the …

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    Comment #30580711

    Probably B2 ( https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html ). Half a penny per GB.

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    Comment #30580705

    It's a file level backup (as opposed to an image or disk backup). So anything related to the operating system is not backed up but all your "data" (documents, photos, music, movies…

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    Comment #30580536

    I'm planning on adding an Amsterdam storage location in a month or so!

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    Comment #30580383

    It's $9/computer so if you have another computer, you can't use the same 5 TB quota. I'm banking on most people having less than 5 tb per computer to backup. It's kind of like what…

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    Comment #30580313

    Ah sadly that probably won't happen soon. All the data is encrypted with your master password (password manager style) and that master password isn't transfered to the server. So y…

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    Comment #30580152

    I've always liked the vorta project ( https://github.com/borgbase/vorta )

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    Comment #30580137

    It's just Mac and Windows right now. Technically, it isn't that hard to get things working on Linux (since the desktop app is Qt) but I need to get around to it. There is a github …

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    Comment #30580129

    Not right now. I'd like to allow the self-hosted version to support other storage backends eventually (will probably start with generic S3 and SFTP first though).

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    Comment #30580102

    It uses restic (github.com/blobbackup) to create backups every hour by default. After the initial backup, the load on battery and cpu should be pretty minimal since the agent is id…

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    Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

    Creator here. I was looking for something as simple as Backblaze Personal [1] but privacy focused and open source. This is my attempt to build that. Uses PyQt6 [2] for the GUI and …

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    Comment #26170524

    Posted about this a while ago [1]. But I recently made it open source and changed the data format so thought it might be worth a re-submission. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

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    Comment #25191761

    Just sent you an email for a test account:) Thanks!