#backblaze — Public Fediverse posts

@eblack Roger that.

Shall your "cloud copy" be your primary pool, or just for backup/access copies?

I haven't done any price-comparisons to AWS, but for example, #Backblaze is a more open (and friendly?) cloud-storage provider:

https://www.backblaze.com/why-backblaze

*️⃣ Wer glaubt, er habe „unlimited Backup“ bezahlt, kann sich irren. So hat der bekannte #Backup-Dienst #Backblaze begonnen, seinem „unlimited“-Angebot Limiten zu setzen. Hier gilt also ganz besonders, was auch sonst bei jedem Backup gilt: Regelmässig zu überprüfen, ob auch wirklich alle wichtigen Daten ins Backup kommen und ob man sie auch wieder zurückbekommen kann.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/backblaze-redefines-unlimited-while-users-discover-its-not-backing-up-dropbox-and-onedrive-service-changes-could-signal-shift-away-from-home-backups

New blog by me:

I'm running Proxmox Backup Server using Backblaze B2 (an S3 compatible object storage service) for storing backups. This does work fine, but my scheduled verification (I verify once a week) regularly fails on some backups due to what appears to be transient issues with the B2 API.

I’ve made a script to re-verify these as needed and thought I'd share:

https://blog.thms.uk/2026/05/pbs-reverify?utm_source=mastodon

#selfhosting #proxmox #backblaze

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

My solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.

I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.

Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.

Do you still trust #Backblaze now that it's quietly stopped backing up your data?

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

End-to-End Storage Drive Analytics Platform Complete! 🚀

Spent the past weeks on my Data Engineering Zoomcamp final project. Excited to share an end-to-end platform analyzing Backblaze hard drive data to bridge enterprise telemetry and consumer accessibility.

The pipeline ingests daily SMART snapshots into GCS, builds a star schema with dbt, and serves insights via Streamlit dashboard showing failure rates by brand and model. Infrastructure is managed with Terraform; the warehouse was optimized using partitioning to improve query performance.

To increase accessibility, switching to open-source/free-ish tools so anyone can dive in without a cloud signup (and plus my trial expired 🙈). My goal is providing drive reliability data so creators, homelabbers, business, or casual users feel informed about their next storage purchase. 😊

Check out the repo for details: https://github.com/ammartin8/hard_drive_analytics_dashboard
#DataEngineering #harddrive #opensource #cloud #streamlit #buildinpublic #selfhosting #mastodon #python #fediverse #backblaze

Backblaze’s “Betrayal”: Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data https://lowendbox.com/blog/backblazes-betrayal-silently-refusing-to-backup-your-most-valuable-data/ #Editorial&News #googledrive #backblaze #onedrive #dropbox #icloud

If you use #Backblaze for "all files" backup, it turns out they have silently stopped backing up directories from popular sync services: https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

Wtf backblaze? They quietly stopped backing up common cloud sync folders like DropBox and .git folders. I only use them for s3, but this is a really concerning change in policy.

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

#backblaze

For anyone using #Backblaze
Headline is misleading, it's about how they're no longer backing up Onedrive/googledrive etc other synced folders on your machine
https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

🚨BREAKING: #Backblaze apparently decided that "backup" now means "oops, not your important stuff." 🎉 Who needs OneDrive or Dropbox anyway? 😜 Congratulations, you've officially been backing up air for a decade! 🏆
https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/ #Backup #Fail #DataStorage #CloudServices #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Data #Loss #Backup #News #Technology #CloudStorage

Sans prévenir, Backblaze ne sauvegarde plus les fichiers d’iCloud Drive http://dlvr.it/TRxty6 #Backblaze #Sauvegarde

Sans prévenir, Backblaze ne sauvegarde plus les fichiers d’iCloud Drive http://dlvr.it/TRxty6 #Backblaze #Sauvegarde

Sans prévenir, Backblaze ne sauvegarde plus les fichiers d’iCloud Drive http://dlvr.it/TRxty6 #Backblaze #Sauvegarde

Sans prévenir, Backblaze ne sauvegarde plus les fichiers d’iCloud Drive http://dlvr.it/TRxty6 #Backblaze #Sauvegarde

Sans prévenir, Backblaze ne sauvegarde plus les fichiers d’iCloud Drive http://dlvr.it/TRxty6 #Backblaze #Sauvegarde

Since Backblaze "updated" their prices, every email I've received from them is basically them trying to justify their existence 😅

#Backblaze #PriceUpdate

lol @ Backblaze... "You may have seen our recent pricing update. We want to make sure you have the full picture of what you get" sounds like damage control to me! #Backblaze

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/03/20/12945/backblaze-b2-%e6%bc%b2%e5%83%b9-15/

Backblaze B2 漲價 15%

#b2 #backblaze #cost #pricing #storage

Starting on May 1, Backblaze will make changes to B2 Cloud Storage:
Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers* to make it that much easier to move and use your data.
Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating the price for B2 Cloud Storage from $6/TB to $6.95/TB.
Why the change: As you continue to scale AI workloads, media pipelines, and application data on our platform, we continue to invest in performance, capacity, and innovation to support your work—and those improvements require investment.

hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

#backblaze

Nooooo not #Backblaze raising their prices 😭

My home server is backed up once a day to #backblaze. I might need to reevaluate that if the price keeps going up.

Fucking AI man

#AI #Backblaze

Backblaze hosts 314 trillion digits of Pi online and the dataset is massive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/backblaze-314-trillion-digits-pi/

Backblaze hosts 314 trillion digits of Pi online and the dataset is massive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/backblaze-314-trillion-digits-pi/

Backblaze hosts 314 trillion digits of Pi online and the dataset is massive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/backblaze-314-trillion-digits-pi/

Backblaze hosts 314 trillion digits of Pi online and the dataset is massive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/backblaze-314-trillion-digits-pi/

Backblaze hosts 314 trillion digits of Pi online and the dataset is massive

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/backblaze-314-trillion-digits-pi/

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/03/09/macos-tahoe-26-3-external-drive-mounting-issues/

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/03/09/macos-tahoe-26-3-external-drive-mounting-issues/

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/03/09/macos-tahoe-26-3-external-drive-mounting-issues/

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/03/09/macos-tahoe-26-3-external-drive-mounting-issues/

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

https://medi-nerd.com/2026/03/09/macos-tahoe-26-3-external-drive-mounting-issues/

Whelp, finally got the laptop backing up using #restic to backblaze. If I screw up moving to UEFI really badly, I should be able to restore.

It wasn't hard, but this is only the second system I've set up, so I had to follow the instructions very closely and still had a few missteps.

If you want an inexpensive Linux cloud backup, I can recommend https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler files are encrypted locally, so you don't have to trust the cloud provider. #Backblaze is storing terabytes for me, and I pay very little.

That special moment when you remember reformatting a drive by accident 4 months ago and it had all your texture files from 20 years of VFX industry work and you lay awake all night wondering what to do and you get up to remember that #BackBlaze is saving a year of restore points.

32GB of my archive data is now being downloaded.

Les disques durs n'ont jamais été aussi fiables, par contre vous ne pouvez plus en acheter
https://mac4ever.com/194763
#Mac4Ever #backblaze #HDD

🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/

#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude

🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/

#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude

🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/

#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude

🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/

#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude

🖥️ Fiabilité des disques durs en 2025 : Backblaze publie son bilan

👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fiabilite-disques-durs-2025-backblaze-146690/

#Fiabilité #DisqueDur #HDD #Hardware #Tech #Backblaze #Étude

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2025 🙂

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/

#HardDrive #Backblaze #Stats

When a customer leaves, #Backblaze asks to hear from said customer in their goodbye-mail. If the customer takes the time to write a reason, they get a mail suggesting they sign up for their ticket system followed by an answer by an AI. Then, the former customer becomes angry.

So now I have a Storage Box from #Hetzner mounted to a PBS VPS as a #CIFS mount. This thing works faster than I expected, without issues so far. Will see how it goes.

Also, 1TB for € 3.20 is quite a good price. Cheaper than #Backblaze. And I can mount that storage to #HomeAssistant as a backup target as well.

#Proxmox #Backup #OffsiteBackups #ProxmoxBackupServer #homelab

For the longest time #Backblaze hasn't supported the backup of networked drives, but has supported #iSCSI. Sadly, and annoyingly quietly, v9.2.2.878 of the client killed iSCSI support, so my array is now blocked.

I'd have liked some notice, but okay. The new setup (local drives, iSCSI as local backup) is now working with much better small file handling, and thankfully the data deduplication worked perfectly, so no re-upload required.

https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/backup-client-release-notes-mac#:~:text=Because%20Backblaze%20does%20not%20back%20up%20network%20drives%2C%20the%20Backup%20Client%20now%20prevents%20backups%20from%20common%20NAS%20filesystems%20such%20as%20SMBFS%2C%20NFS%2C%20FTPFS%2C%20SSHFS%2C%20iSCSI%2C%20and%20others