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

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Post by corobo »

jve wrote: post #106
corobo wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Cloudflare’s R2 exist? I saw the announcement but nothing else other than folks like me wondering; has anyone at all got access yet?

Seems its still in closed beta: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflares-r2-st... But yeah, comment sounds so weird for a non released product.

Ah good so it actually does exist in a way that's more than a spec, that's good enough for me.

I'm in no rush with that slurp mode or whatever they called it, just hadn't heard of anything more since the announcement :)

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

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Post by leetrout »

jve wrote: post #106
corobo wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Cloudflare’s R2 exist? I saw the announcement but nothing else other than folks like me wondering; has anyone at all got access yet?

Seems its still in closed beta: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflares-r2-st... But yeah, comment sounds so weird for a non released product.

I acknowledge it may not happen but cloudflare hasn't done anything to make me doubt them.

Isn't backblaze still just a single datacenter?

There is nothing weird postulating about using a storage service with the lowest price among cloud providers with (planned) free egress on a show HN thread.

You are certainly free to disagree if free egress actually matters but cloudflare R2 is the first to offer free egress AFAIK. B2 may be cheap at 1¢ / GB but that still adds up once you start moving TBs around.

Lots of variables and unknowns and room for debate.

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

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Post by asojfdowgh »

leetrout wrote: post #56

My goto tool for secure backups is tarsnap. He only supports S3 as far as I know so using B2 could be a good differentiator. Wonder if either of you will add support for cloudflares R2? https://www.tarsnap.com/

backblaze supports s3 protocol

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

bimbashrestha wrote: post #69
bethecloud wrote: post #23

Would be cool to back this to decentralized cloud storage (should be pretty easy to do via Storj S3 integration): https://docs.storj.io/dcs/getting-started/quickstart-aws-sdk... Or even Restic directly: https://docs.storj.io/dcs/how-tos/backup-with-restic/

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

So as of now I can use it your app and to b2?

Because that’s where my restic backups go to (natively).

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

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Post by jve »

leetrout wrote: post #112
jve wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems its still in closed beta: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflares-r2-st... But yeah, comment sounds so weird for a non released product.

I acknowledge it may not happen but cloudflare hasn't done anything to make me doubt them. Isn't backblaze still just a single datacenter? There is nothing weird postulating about using a storage service with the lowest price among cloud providers with (planned) free egress on a show HN thread. You are certainly free to disagree if free egress actually matters but cloudflare R2 is the first to offer free egress AFAIK…

> I acknowledge it may not happen but cloudflare hasn't done anything to make me doubt them.

I suspect CF R2 may get popular and multiple tools will work with CF. Why not?

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #114
bimbashrestha wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So as of now I can use it your app and to b2? Because that’s where my restic backups go to (natively).

I tried the app and I did notice the first screen is "Select Storage Location" after you try to add a new backup and it lists: local dir, aws, gc, azure, b2, s3, sftp.

So I indeed guess it can as well be used as restic frontend (but I am not really sure to what extent it uses restic and whether blobbackup is just a gui/skin for restic)

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

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Post by alex_lod »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

https://tresorit.com/

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

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Post by rsync »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #116
crossroadsguy wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So as of now I can use it your app and to b2? Because that’s where my restic backups go to (natively).

I tried the app and I did notice the first screen is "Select Storage Location" after you try to add a new backup and it lists: local dir, aws, gc, azure, b2, s3, sftp. So I indeed guess it can as well be used as restic frontend (but I am not really sure to what extent it uses restic and whether blobbackup is just a gui/skin for restic)

Ahhh … sftp is a choice.

Great job!

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

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Post by bimbashrestha »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #116
crossroadsguy wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So as of now I can use it your app and to b2? Because that’s where my restic backups go to (natively).

I tried the app and I did notice the first screen is "Select Storage Location" after you try to add a new backup and it lists: local dir, aws, gc, azure, b2, s3, sftp. So I indeed guess it can as well be used as restic frontend (but I am not really sure to what extent it uses restic and whether blobbackup is just a gui/skin for restic)

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 custom backup engine and allowed backups to a number of storage providers (S3, B2, SFTP, etc).

The new app uses restic as the backup engine and only supports backups to B2 right now. Sorry for the confusion.

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