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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

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Post by ricardobeat »

azalemeth wrote: post #54

I guess the problem with Backblaze's business model with respect to Backblaze Personal is that it is "unlimited". They specifically exclude linux users because, well, we're nerds, r/datahoarders exists, and we have different ideas about what "unlimited" means. [1] This is another example in disguise of two people disagreeing about what "unlimited" means in the context of backup, even if they do claim to have "no rest…

It’s funny that the same person asking for linux support would complain about B2 “not being for home users”. I sync my own backups to B2 and would set that up over installing linux any day of the week! It’s extremely easy.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by rcxdude »

noirscape wrote: post #19

I 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…

It's probably primarily because Linus is a kernel and filesystem nerd, not a database nerd, so he preferred to just use the filesystem which he understood the performance characteristics of well (at least on linux).

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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100ms wrote: post #13

Managing backup exclusions strikes again. It's impossible. Either commit to backing up the full disk, including the 80% of easily regenerated/redownloaded etc. data, or risk the 0.001% critical 16 byte file that turns out to contain your Bitcoin wallet key or god knows what else. I've been bitten by this more times than I'd like to admit managing my own backups, it's hard to expect a shrink-wrapped provider to do muc…

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Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by grumbelbart2 »

noirscape wrote: post #19

I 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…

Git packs objects into pack-files on a regular basis. If it doesn't, check your configuration, or do it manually with 'git repack'.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by kameit00 »

I once had to restore around 2 TB of RAW photos. The app was a mess. It crashed every few hours. I ended up manually downloading single folders over a timespan of 2 weeks to restore my data. The support only apologized and could not help with my restore problem. After this I cancelled my subscription immediately and use local drives for my backups now, drives which I rotate (in use and locations).

I never trust them again with my data.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by lelandfe »

embedding-shape wrote: post #117
mikepurvis wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unsure if sarcastic but most ISPs will throttle and "traffic" long before you use anything close to times .

I'm unsure if you're sarcastic or not, never have I've used a ISP that would throttle you, for any reason, this is unheard of in the countries I've lived, and I'm not sure many people would even subscribe to something like that, that sounds very reverse to how a typical at-home broadband connection works. Of course, in countries where the internet isn't so developed as in other parts of the world, this might make sen…

Alas, "isn't so developed" applies to the US: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/cox-slows-intern...

My parents have gotten hit by this. Dad was downloading huge video files at one point on his WiFi and his ISP silently throttled him.

A common term is "data cap": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_cap

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Post by avazhi »

Jolter wrote: post #20

To 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.

Your iPhone has this cool feature called reader mode if you didn’t know.

As for mentioning WCAG - so what if it doesn’t adhere to those guidelines? It’s his personal website, he can do what he wants with it. Telling him you found it difficult to read properly is one thing but referencing WCAG as if this guy is bound somehow to modify his own aesthetic preference for generic accessibility reasons is laughable. Part of what continues to make the web good is differing personal tastes and unique website designs - it is stifling and monotonous to see the same looking shit on every site and it isn’t like there aren’t tools (like reader mode) for people who dislike another’s personal taste.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by mrighele »

jgrizou wrote: post #24
fuckinpuppers wrote: post #12

I noticed this (thankfully before it was critical) and I’ve decided to move on from BB. Easily over 10 year customer. Totally bogus. Not only did it stop backing it up the old history is totally gone as well. The one thing they have to do is backup everything and when you see it in their console you can rest assured they are going to continue to back it up. They’ve let the desktop client linger, it’s difficult to add…

What are you using now? Asking for a friend

Not OP, but I have been using borg backup [1] against Hetzner Storage Box [2]

Borg backup is a good tool in my opinion and has everything that I need (deduplication, compression, mountable snapshot.

Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives (I pay about 10 eur/month for 5TB of storage)

Before that I was using s3cmd [3] to backup on a S3 bucket.

[1] https://www.borgbackup.org/

[2] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

[3] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by nottorp »

specialp wrote: post #118
Jolter wrote: post #20

To 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 don’t require glasses (yet) One day try throwing a pair on you'll be surprised. The small thin font is causing this not the text contrast. This and low light scenarios are the first things to go.

> The small thin font is causing this not the text contrast.

Whatever causes it, I do wear glasses (and on a recent prescription too) and the text is still very hard to read.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Post by prmoustache »

readingnews wrote: post #27
Jolter wrote: post #20

To 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.

Completely agree with this comment. Had to cut / paste it into vim and q! when done, was getting a headache.

Even as a Vim user I find this completely overkill when you can just press the reader mode button on the browser.
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