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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
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Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any company that does the "unlimited*" shenanigans are automatically out from any selection process I had going, wherever they use it. It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses, and they'll be quick to offload you from the platform given the chance, and you'll have no recourse. Always prefer businesses who are upfront and honest about what they can offer their users, in a s…
Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.
And they have the necessary pipes to serve the rate they sell you 24/7.
Nobody has turned the moon into a hard drive yet.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#103To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.
I'm also pretty sure 14 points font is a bit outdated at this point, 16 should probably be a minimum with current screens. It's not as if screens aren't wide enough to fit bigger text.
That's good guidelines and all, but meanwhile you are posting it on a site with..
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.comment { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; }Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#104I can understand in theory why they wouldn't want to back up .git folders as-is. Git has a serious object count bloat problem if you have any repository with a good amount of commit history, which causes a lot of unnecessary overhead in just scanning the folder for files alone. I don't quite understand why it's still like this; it's probably the biggest reason why git tends to play poorly with a lot of filesystem too…
I think they shouldn't back up git objects individually because git handles the versioning information. Just compress the .git folder itself and back it up as a single unit.
Better yet, include dedpulication, incremental versioning, verification, and encryption. Wait, that's borg / restic.
This is a joke, but honestly anyone here shouldn't be directly backing up their filesystems and should instead be using the right tool for the job. You'll make the world a more efficient place, have more robust and quicker to recover backups, and save some money along the way.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#105Blackblaze's personal backup solution is a mess in general. The client is clearly a giant pile of spaghetti code and I've had numerous issues with it, trying to figure out and change which files it does and doesn't backup is just one of them.
The configuration and logging formats they use are absolutely nonsensical.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#106Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any company that does the "unlimited*" shenanigans are automatically out from any selection process I had going, wherever they use it. It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses, and they'll be quick to offload you from the platform given the chance, and you'll have no recourse. Always prefer businesses who are upfront and honest about what they can offer their users, in a s…
Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.
If they limit the rate of speed it's technically limited which really makes me wonder how they legally can say these things. I guess it means in a lot of cases it's like Comcast where they also limit the data a month perhaps but dang.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#108Exclusions are one thing, but I've had Backblaze _fail to restore a file_. I pay for unlimited history. I contacted the support asking WTF, "oh the file got deleted at some point, sorry for that", and they offered me 3 months of credits. I do not trust my Backblaze backups anymore.
Do you have any more details? This is a pretty big deal. The differentiators between Backblaze and Hetzner mostly boil down to this kind of thing supposedly not being possible.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
LONG PRESS????!?! you legend. How does one find these things out.
Like this, by word of mouth. That’s how Apple has done UI design since they stopped printing paper manuals. - ctrl-shift-. to show hidden files on macOS - pull down to see search box (iOS 18) - swipe from top right corner for flashlight button - swipe up from lower middle for home screen Etc, etc
Long press is a shortcut, the longer way is to click on the icon beside the url and tap/click the enormous "reader mode" button.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#110Unrelated to the main point, and probably too late to matter, but you can access repo activity logs via Github's API. I had to clean up a bad push before and was able to find the old commit hash in the logs, then reset the branch to that commit, similarly to how you'd fix local messes using reflog.