Was looking quite long for the company behind this and expected a B2B offering to be located at "Company", not an about us.
Stating your company name and an address would greatly increase my trust.
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#42looks great! I have a question about backing up my mac. Let’s say my mac is stolen/dropped from a bridge. Can I actually restore everything on a new mac, or still need to install and configure from scratch and “just” have a backup of documents, images etc?
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, etc) is. Here is a support page that explains what is backed up by default (which you can ofc change) [1].
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#43Off topic but what is the cheapest object storage service for less than 1 TB of data?
Probably B2 (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html). Half a penny per GB.
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#44If this would allow me to check my files in a simple web UI (no need for collaboration or anything), and create share links for low-volume downloads I could just leave Google Drive permanently.
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 you'd have to use the desktop client to access your files.
You could create a sharing mechanism, though; let the desktop client encrypt a copy of the file with a randomly generated key and share that key in the download URL like Mega does it.
Requires extra data transfers and extra storage, but for small files that seems doable without invalidating the master password setup. You do end with two separate encryption systems, though.
A more scalable solution would be to encrypt every file with a different key and encrypt the key store with the master password (but that would obviously require a relatively extensive rewrite). You'd be able to get more fine-grained file access without sacrificing the single master password setup.
That way, you can simply share the file key when you want to generate a share link.
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#45Was looking quite long for the company behind this and expected a B2B offering to be located at "Company", not an about us. Stating your company name and an address would greatly increase my trust.
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 top of the home page for more info) [2][3].
[1] https://github.com/Blobbackup/Blobbackup/issues/93 [2] https://blobbackup.com [3] https://forms.gle/euPCbhZaf1CMN8LbA
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#46My 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…
First and foremost: don't use an SSD for cold storage: depending on the chips in your external drive, the bits can decay in as little as 6 months: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...
Lots of copies keeps stuff safe.
If you don't mind the hassle, you can buy a couple HDDs (maybe a 2.5" and a 3.5" from different manufacturers), rsync to both of them, and hand one to a friend or family member that lives an hour or two away from you.
You may want to encrypt the drive, depending on contents and trust if the remote storage location.
Repeat quarterly/annually depending on your data change velocity/appetite for data loss/willingness to muck with it.
This should cost under $200, and the HDDs should last at least 5 years, so that amortizes to $40/year of 2 remote backups. No cloud offering can get close to that.
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#47I like Arq https://www.arqbackup.com/
They were only an app back in the day, which backed up to any object store you chose.
Although now they are trying the saas way of things too.
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#48If this would allow me to check my files in a simple web UI (no need for collaboration or anything), and create share links for low-volume downloads I could just leave Google Drive permanently.
Consider using https://wetransfer.com for one off transfers.
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#49I like Arq https://www.arqbackup.com/ They were only an app back in the day, which backed up to any object store you chose. Although now they are trying the saas way of things too.
Not sure what you mean by "trying the saas way of things". We still sell Arq 7 as a standalone app. It comes with a year of updates. You can choose to renew, or not and keep using the app you bought forever. Similar licensing to Panic's Nova app https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/arq7/English.lproj/a...
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#50Interesting. I had not heard of restic, yet. My default backup choice has been borg[1] for a long time, so borgbase.com was a natural choice for off-site backups for me. They make Vorta a decent GUI client for borg - that's how I found out about them.
Can someone here give a comparison of borg and restic by any chance?