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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 captainbland »

KwanEsq wrote: post #90
kaszanka wrote: post #46

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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.

I wonder if it's because of the font-weight being decreased. If I disable the `font-weight` rule in Firefox's Inspector the text gets noticeably darker, but the contrast score doesn't change. Could be a bad interaction with anti-aliasing thin text that the contrast checker isn't able to pick up.

I'd say it looks pretty readable on android although I still wouldn't describe it as good. I wouldn't say I feel encouraged to squint. But possibly different antialiasing explains it.

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

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Post by doubled112 »

myself248 wrote: post #183
Jolter wrote: post #62

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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

It's so intuitive, how could I have missed that?

Good old iOS and hidden features. Great discoverability. Long press those, swipe that, gesture this.

I have a gesture for whoever decided "find in page" should go under share.

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

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Post by peteforde »

Weirdly, reading this had the net impact of me signing up to Backblaze.

I had no idea that it was such a good bargain. I used to be a Crashplan user back in the day, and I always thought Backblaze had tiered limits.

I've been using Duplicati to sync a lot of data to S3's cheapest tape-based long term storage tier. It's a serious pain in the ass because it takes hours to queue up and retrieve a file. It's a heavy enough process that I don't do anything nearly close to enough testing to make sure my backups are restorable, which is a self-inflicted future injury.

Here's the thing: I'm paying about $14/month for that S3 storage, which makes $99/year a total steal. I don't use Dropbox/Box/OneDrive/iCloud so the grievances mentioned by the author are not major hurdles for me. I do find the idea that it is silently ignoring .git folders troubling, primarily because they are indeed not listed in the exclusion list.

I am a bit miffed that we're actively prevented from backing up the various Program Files folders, because I have a large number of VSTi instruments that I'll need to ensure are rcloned or something for this to work.

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

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Post by bayindirh »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #199
bayindirh wrote: post #195

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> Unless it does something very weird it won't trigger all those files to download at the same time. That shouldn't be a worry. The moment you call read() (or fopen() or your favorite function), the download will be triggered. It's a hook sitting between you and the file. You can't ignore it. The only way to bypass it is to remount it over rclone or something and use "ls" and "lsd" functions to query filenames. Other…

Why would it use either of those on all the files at once? It should only be opening enough files to fill the upload buffer.

Maybe it'll, maybe it won't, but it'll cycle all files in the drive and will stress everything from your cloud provider to Backblaze, incl. everything in between; software and hardware-wise.

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

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Post by its-summertime »

SomeHacker44 wrote: post #190
ricardobeat wrote: post #121

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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.

What software/workflow do you use for this Linux to B2 backup please?

Restic + rclone personally, with a wrapper script to glue things together nicely

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

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Post by lukewarm707 »

i think at this point i have had enough of the majority of consumer products and just use production.

backup to real s3 storage.

llms on real api tokens.

search on real search api no adverts.

google account on workspace and gcp, no selling the data.

etc.

only way to stop corpos treating you like a doormat

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

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Post by lousken »

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…

Yea, that's pretty shady. Either don't call your service unlimited or bump up the prices so you can survive occasional datahoarder, called them out on it many years ago.

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

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Post by pixl97 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #99
littlecranky67 wrote: post #84

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Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.

They offer "unlimited" where I live, not "unlimited*".

I mean, in this universe we live in everything is limited somehow.

I do wish it was a word that had to be completely dropped from marketing/adverting.

For example there is not unlimited storage, hell the visible universe has a storage limit. There is not unlimited upload and download speed, and what if when you start using more space they started exponentially slowing the speed you could access the storage? Unlimited CPU time in processing your request? Unlimited execution slots to process your request? Unlimited queue size when processing your requests.

Hence everything turns into the mess of assumptions.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

bayindirh wrote: post #204
Dylan16807 wrote: post #199

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Why would it use either of those on all the files at once? It should only be opening enough files to fill the upload buffer.

Maybe it'll, maybe it won't, but it'll cycle all files in the drive and will stress everything from your cloud provider to Backblaze, incl. everything in between; software and hardware-wise.

That sounds very acceptable to get those files backed up.

It shouldn't stress things to spend a couple weeks relaying a terabyte in small chunks. The most likely strain is on my upload bandwidth and yeah that's the cost of cloud backup, more ISPs need to improve upload.

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