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If it's open-source, Linux support is only a few hours with Claude away. If it's not open-source, but the protocol is documented, see above. If it's not open-source, and the protocol isn't documented, well... that makes the decision easy, doesn't it?
Backups software written by Claude? No thanks. I've used enough Claude coded applications that I wouldn't trust that with a backup, unless it had extensive tests along with it.
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Backups software written by Claude? No thanks. I've used enough Claude coded applications that I wouldn't trust that with a backup, unless it had extensive tests along with it.
And I've used enough "gold standard" commercial applications, like the one being discussed in this very article , that I don't trust those either. If you recoil in horror at code written by LLMs, I'm afraid that the vendors you're already working with have some really bad news for you. You can get over it now or get over it later. You will get over it. I can audit and verify Claude's output. Code running at BackBlaze…
What time I do have, I've been using to try and figure out photo libraries. Nothing is working the way I need it to. The providers are a mess of security restrictions and buggy software.
The issue with a client app backing up dropbox and onedrive folders on your computer is the files on demand feature, you could sync a 1tb onedrive to your 250gb laptop but it's OK because of smart/selective sync aka files on demand. Then backblaze backup tries to back the folder up and requests a download of every single file and now you have zero bytes free, still no backup and a sick laptop. You could oauth the bac…
As an FYI you can recover from force pushes to GitHub using the GitHub UI[0] or their API[1]. And if you force push to one of your own machines you can use the reflog[2]. [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78872853 [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48110879 [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24236065
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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…
Let's ride the lightning and see if it does anything.
I mean, they do one thing.
Looking forward to seeing if they respond.
AFAICT Backblaze does back up .git directories. I have many repos backed up. The .git directory is hidden by default in the web UI (along with all other hidden files), but there is an option to show them. You should try downloading one of your backed up git repos to see if it actually does contain the full history, I just checked several and everything looks good.
I commented on this topic elsewhere on this page. This is an email from 2021. Maybe they changed policy but here: > Bob (Backblaze Help) > Aug 5, 2021, 11:33 PDT > Hello there, > Thank you for taking the time to write in, > Unfortunately .git directories are excluded by Backblaze by default. File > changes within .git directories occur far too often and over so many files > that the Backblaze software simply would no…
I don’t really understand that. I’m using Windows File History, and while it’s limited to backing up changes only every 15 minutes, and is writing to a local network drive, it doesn’t seem to have any trouble with .git directories.
We are going to drop blackblaze over this We discovered this change recently because my dad was looking for a file that Dropbox accidentally overwrote which at first we said “no problem. This is why we pay for backblaze” We had learned that this policy had changed a few months ago, and we were never notified. File was unrecoverable If anyone at backblaze is reading this, I pay for your product so I can install you on…
Why not just use backblaze as cold storage and use restic or another tool with a GUI to backup to it?
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 enou…
"Maybe they're only incompetent in the ways that have been enumerated in this blog post" does not seem like much of a sales pitch. Baffling.
I would ask you: what is the better alternative? That's not a rhetorical question; they don't have my credit card details for another two weeks.
What is the point of Backblaze at all at this point? If you are a consumer, all your files are probably IN OneDrive or iCloud or soon will be.