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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by philjohn »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes. It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the d…

Jottacloud offers unlimited (in reality after 5TB they start slowing your upload speed to them) with a cli, or rclone + restic support.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by bimbashrestha »

tonymet wrote: post #4

i love seeing more innovation with backups . can you talk about the agent ? many of them drain the battery and overload cpu .

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 idle most of the time (because incremental backups are fairly quick).

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by pieterhg »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes. It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the d…

You can make a snapshot of a Backblaze Personal and then store it in Backblaze B2. Works fine.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by DenseComet »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes. It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the d…

Backblaze also supports that pricing model with B2, which is a fixed cost per gigabyte stored per month. B2 also has an S3 compatible API, which lets you use any backup software you want.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by bimbashrestha »

mattl wrote: post #3

What operating systems does this support?

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 issue for it btw: https://github.com/Blobbackup/Blobbackup/issues/92

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by bimbashrestha »

wormer wrote: post #12

Speaking of this, does anyone know about any local backups for Linux with a nice GUI? I turned into a GNOMie and don't want to spend time with commandline options to figure it out. I tried APTIK but it flat out didn't work.

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

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by [deleted] »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes. It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the d…

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