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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 sreitshamer »

Lord_Zero wrote: post #334
appreciatorBus wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shoutout to Arq backup which simply gives you an option in backup plans for what to do with cloud only files: - report an error - ignore - materialize Regardless, if you make it back up software that doesn’t give this level of control to users, and you make a change about which files you’re going to back up, you should probably be a lot more vocal with your users about the change. Vanishingly few people read release…

Why no linux support?

(Arq developer here) Haven't gotten many requests for it at all over the years. I presume it's because there are so many free options for Linux.

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

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Post by adithyassekhar »

Saris wrote: post #268
adithyassekhar wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Backblaze offers 'unlimited' backup space, so they have to do this kind of thing as a result of that poor marketing choice.

If they must scam, shouldn’t they be deduplicating on the server rather than the client?

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

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Post by tonymet »

> My first troubling discovery was in 2025, when I made several errors then did a push -f to GitHub and blew away the git history for a half decade old repo

git reflog is your "backup". it contains every commit and the resulting log (DAG) going back 90 days. If you do blow away a remote commit, don't fret, it's in your reflog

  # list all of the remote HEAD commits you've ever worked with 
  git reflog origin/master

  # double check it's the right one
  git log -5 origin/master@{2}

  # reset the remote to the right one
  git push -f origin $(git rev-parse origin/master@{2}):master

  # (optional) reset your local branch
  git reset origin/master@{2}

  # at this point your local branch has time-traveled, but your working dir will be in the present state (e.g. all the relevant files will show as changed)

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

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Post by Anamon »

51Cards wrote: post #493
kameit00 wrote: post #125

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…

If you're pulling 2TB of data you should be ordering it on a drive from them and saving yourself the hassle.

I restored a 2 TB drive via the net no problem from them some years back, although I didn't use the client, but downloaded one massive ZIP file from the web interface.

Well, "no problem" is an overstatement. Once you need a restore, you learn that their promise of end-to-end encryption is actually a lie. (As in, you have to break the end-to-end encryption to restore since everything has to be decrypted on their servers.)

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

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Post by bartvk »

sreitshamer wrote: post #501
Lord_Zero wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why no linux support?

(Arq developer here) Haven't gotten many requests for it at all over the years. I presume it's because there are so many free options for Linux.

Just wanted to say that for many years, Arq has been my backup solution. It's amazing and I advise it to everyone I know.

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

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Post by Anamon »

gadders wrote: post #487

I've been on Backblaze for a few years now, ever since Crashplan decided it didn't want individuals to use its service any more. It's always been just janky. A bad app that constantly throws low disk warnings and opens a webpage if you click anywhere on it. Being told the password change dialogue in the app doesn't work and having to use the website etc etc. Just all round not an experience that inspires confidence.…

But Crashplan also had an absolute abomination of a bloated, sluggish, Java-based client.

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

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Post by donmcronald »

babypuncher wrote: post #416
moffkalast wrote: post #370

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Bidirectional auto file sync is a fundamentally broken pattern and I'm tired of pretending it's not. It's just complete chaos with wrong files constantly getting overridden on both ends. I have no clue why people still use it and I'd cut my losses if I were you, either backup to the cloud or pull from it, not both at the same time like an absolute tictac.

I think this is a case of people using bidirectional file sync wrong. The point is to make the most up to date version of a file available across multiple devices, not to act as a backup or for collaboration between multiple users. It works perfectly fine as long as you keep how it works in mind, and probably most importantly don't have multiple users working directly on the same file at once. I've been using these s…

> And if I ever do have one, my real backup solution has me covered.

What do you use and how do you test / reconcile to make sure it’s not missing files? I find OneDrive extremely hard to deal with because the backup systems don’t seem to be 100% reliable.

I think there are a lot of solutions these days that error on the side of claiming success.

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

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Post by Anamon »

CodesInChaos wrote: post #66
faangguyindia wrote: post #16

I backup my data to s3 and r2 using local scripts, never had any issues Don't even know why people rely on these guis which can show their magic anytime

* S3 is super expensive, unless you use Glacier, but that has a high overhead per file, so you should bundle them before uploading. * If your value your privacy, you need to encrypt the files on the client before uploading. * You need to keep multiple revisions of each file, and manage their lifecycle. Unless you're fine with losing any data that was overwritten at the time of the most recent backup. * You need to de…

Even with Glacier, S3 is ridiculously expensive compared to almost anything else.

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

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Post by tonymet »

peteforde wrote: post #203

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…

You lose a bit of control. With S3 you can preprocess (transform, index, filter, downcode, etc) before storing. You can index metadata in place (names, sizes, metadata) for low-cost searching.

As for testing recovery, you can validate file counts, sizes + checksums without performing recovery.

A few shell scripts give you the power of advanced enterprise backup, whereas backblaze only supports GUI restores.

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

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Post by justsomehnguy »

creatonez wrote: post #276
lpcvoid wrote: post #25

Hetzner storagebox. 1TB for under 5 bucks/month, 5TB for under 15. Sftp access. Point your restic there. Backup game done, no surprises, no MBAs involved.

Hetzner Storage Box is not even remotely a similar product to B2, considering the only reliability offered is the disks being in RAID. There is no geo-redundancy at all. The number of simultaneous connections is also quite limited, though this might not matter for many use cases.

I feel what you need to chose between $5/m and 99.999% SLA
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