Ouch. The only reason their “well figured out what to include and exclude” policy made sense was an implicit assumption that they’d play it safe
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
#142To 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.
macOS/iOS Safari and Brave browsers have "Reader mode" . Chrome has a "Reading mode" but it's more cumbersome to use because it's buried in a side menu. For desktop browsers, I also have a bookmarklet on the bookmarks bar with the following Javascript: javascript: document.querySelectorAll('p, td, tr, ul, ol').forEach(elem => {elem.style.color = '#000'}) It doesn't darken the text on every webpage but it does work on…
Some css files abuse !important so you might have to add that too:
{elem.style.color = '#000 !important'}Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#143Earlier 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…
> It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses Or that they're targeting the mass retail market, where people are technically ignorant, and "unlimited" is required to compete. And statistically-speaking, is viable as long as a company keeps its users to a normal distribution.
> Or that they're targeting the mass retail market, where people are technically ignorant, and "unlimited" is required to compete.
So… Marketing has taken over, just as parent comment said. Got it.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#144Earlier 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.
Doesn't help when you still need a VPN to get rid of Telekom/Vodafones abysmal peering
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's what I've done for years.
Long pressing is much more pleasant.
I wish Apple would give us a hint rather than requiring us to chance upon this recommendation on HN.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> And they have the necessary pipes to serve the rate they sell you 24/7
I doubt they have those pipes, at least if every of their customers (or a sufficiently large amount) would actually make use of that.
Second question would be, how long they would allow you to utilize your broadband 24/7 at max capacity without canceling your subscription. Which leads back to the point the person I replied to was making: If you truly make use of what is promised, they cancel you. Hence it is not a faithful offer in the first place.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#147I 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 don’t think this is the right way to see this.
Why should a file backup solution adapt to work with git? Or any application? It should not try to understand what a git object is.
I’m paying to copy files from a folder to their servers just do that. No matter what the file is. Stay at the filesystem level not the application level.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.. .default { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color:#828282; } .admin { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:8.5pt; color:#000000; } .title { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color:#828282; overflow:hidden; } .subtext { font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;…
Which is why Firefox has memorized that this site needs 170% zoom.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#149I 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'.
I decided to look into this (git gc should also be doing this), and I think I figured out why it's such a consistent issue with git in particular. Running git gc does properly pack objects together and reduce inode count to something much more manageable.
It's the same reason why the postgres autovacuum daemon tends to be borderline useless unless you retune it[0]: the defaults are barmy. git gc only runs if there's 6700 loose unpacked objects[1]. Most typical filesystem tools tend to start balking at traversing ~1000 files in a structure (depends a bit on the filesystem/OS as well, Windows tends to get slower a good bit earlier than Linux).
To fix it, running
> git config --global gc.auto 1000
should retune it and any subsequent commit to your repo's will trigger garbage collection properly when there's around 1000 loose files. Pack file management seems to be properly tuned by default; at more than 50 packs, gc will repack into a larger pack.
[0]: For anyone curious, the default postgres autovacuum setting runs only when 10% of the table consists of dead tuples (roughly: deleted+every revision of an updated row). If you're working with a beefy table, you're never hitting 10%. Either tune it down or create an external cronjob to run vacuum analyze more frequently on the tables you need to keep speedy. I'm pretty sure the defaults are tuned solely to ensure that Postgres' internal tables are fast, since those seem to only have active rows to a point where it'd warrant autovacuum.
Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
#150To 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 feedback is noted! I'll darken it down a few nootches and test it on mobile. Thanks for the feedback
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