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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 deno »

willis936 wrote: post #102
littlecranky67 wrote: post #84

Earlier 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.

Since I know how many of those businesses are run I'll let you in on the very obvious secret: there’s zero chance they have enough uplink to accommodate everyone using 100% of their bandwidth at the same time, and probably much less than that.

Residential network access is oversold as everything else.

The only difference with storage is there’s a theoretical maximum on how much a single person can use.

But you could just as well limit backup upload speed for similar effect. Having something about fair use in ToS is really not that different.

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

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Post by yangm97 »

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…

You don’t see ZFS/BTRFS block based snapshot replication choking on git or any sort of dataset. Use the right job for the tool or something.

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

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Post by mhitza »

kaszanka wrote: post #46
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.

Surprisingly only the headings (2.05) and links (3.72) fail the Firefox accessibility check, the body text is 5.74. But subjectively it seems worse and I definitely agree with you that the contrast is too low.

Contrast looks good for the text, but the font used has very thin lines. A thicker font would have been readable by itself. At 250% page zoom it's good enough, if you don't enable the browser built-in reader mode.

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

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Post by shortformblog »

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.

The problem is less the color than the weight. If it was 500 rather than 300 it would be perfectly fine.

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

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Post by dmantis »

mikepurvis wrote: post #112
littlecranky67 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.

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

I've been running RPI-based torrent client 24/7 in several countries and never experienced that. Eats a few TBs per month, not the full line, but pretty decent amount. I guess it really depends on the country.

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

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Post by palata »

mijoharas wrote: post #53
palata wrote: post #33

My takeaway is that for data that matters, don't trust the service. I back up with Restic, so that the service only sees encrypted blobs.

What cloud backend are people using for restic? B2/S3/something else? I'm still just backing up to other machines using it (though I'd also heavily recommend restic)

I run restic with rclone, which is not only compatible with S3-like storage (which include many, like Hetzner, OVH, Exoscale) but many others, from mega to pcloud through Google Drive.

For stuff I care about (mostly photos), I back them up on two different services. I don't have TBs of those, so it's not very expensive. My personal code I store on git repositories anyway (like SourceHut or Codeberg or sometimes GitHub).

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

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Post by yangm97 »

einr wrote: post #75
venzaspa wrote: post #22

On the topic of backing up data from cloud platforms such as Onedrive, I suspect this is stop the client machine from actively downloading 'files on demand' which are just pointers in explorer until you go to open them. If you've got huge amounts of files in Onedrive and the backup client starts downloading everyone of them (before it can reupload them again) you're going to run into problems. But ideally, they'd giv…

This is a pain, to be sure, but surely there is some sort of logic you could implement to detect whether a file is a Real File that actually exists on the device (if so, back it up) or a pointer to the cloud (ignore it by default, probably, but maybe provide a user setting to force it to back up even these)

It used to be the case that placeholder files were very obvious but now OneDrive and iCloud (possibly others) work more like an attached network storage with some local cache, and that was a good move for most programs because back then a file being evicted from storage looked like a file deletion.
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