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

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Post by brianwski »

magicalhippo wrote: post #88
bimbashrestha wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Backblaze Personal does for their unlimited plan but slightly lower tier I suppose (since there is no way I could do unlimited).

You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful:

https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif

You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think.

When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "stressful". :-) So I welcome another backup client developer to our club, and hope this can help them out.

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

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Post by teddyh »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #78
teddyh wrote: post #67

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“5 terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low.” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

yesthatisthejoke.heic

Well, pardon me for explaining the joke for people who might not know the reference.

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

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Post by tedmiston »

xiphias2 wrote: post #81
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #79

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Google Drive with rclone and the crypt layer ( https://rclone.org/crypt/ )?

It looks like a command line application, I'm looking for something with a great OS X, iOS, Android and web GUI (and happy to pay for it). Dropbox looks similar to Google Drive with the same problem (No E2E encryption)

You can use Cryptomator with the various cloud storage backends.

https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator

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

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Post by magicalhippo »

brianwski wrote: post #121
magicalhippo wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful: https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think. When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "st…

They aren't that many, but I'm assuming he's starting up so not sure how many he can handle. I recall Crashplan having enough >10TB guys that they decided "unlimited" wasn't, and that was many years ago.

Personally I have 3TB of essential data, and about 10TB if I wanted to backup most of my computer.

Interesting graph though, thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

bimbashrestha wrote: post #119
crossroadsguy wrote: post #116

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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.

So I’m using restic currently (barebones; with scripts). And I pay for storage on b2.

Should I download it from elsewhere? Isn’t Blobbackup opensource?

Can I use blobbackup instead to do the same only that Blobbackup will be a gui for Restic?

As an analogy - what is Vorta for Borg.

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

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Post by doublepg23 »

aborsy wrote: post #93
doublepg23 wrote: post #60

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I’ve been using Deja Dupe for 4 years now for a local backup on my NAS. It’s extremely slow though, and I’d prefer fs level like ZFS or even btrfs at this point.

Deja Dup has recently offered Restic backend.

That's great! Couple questions, is this on a recently released version, will it be in the next Fedora? Is it best just to grab the Flatpak?

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

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Post by bimbashrestha »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #125
bimbashrestha wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So I’m using restic currently (barebones; with scripts). And I pay for storage on b2. Should I download it from elsewhere? Isn’t Blobbackup opensource? Can I use blobbackup instead to do the same only that Blobbackup will be a gui for Restic? As an analogy - what is Vorta for Borg.

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

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

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Post by quinncom »

brianwski wrote: post #121
magicalhippo wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful: https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think. When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "st…

That url just shows a bunch of memes. Can you reupload?

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

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Post by wormer »

infinityio wrote: post #25
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.

It probably isn't quite what you are looking for, but have you ever tried Syncthing? It doesn't have enough features to be an actual backup solution, but it is nice if you just want another copy of your files somewhere else

I actually use Syncthing for everything, but I was looking for a one click and I'm back where I started when I have to reset my PC
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