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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.

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

🚨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

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

#Backblaze #PriceUpdate

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

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/

🖥️ 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

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

immich还没有S3支持，但是我是不是可以通过将backblaze的bucket挂载为磁盘

https://www.v2ex.com/t/911646
https://docs.raidrive.com/en/gui/storages/AWSS3/
https://blog.spikeseed.cloud/mount-s3-as-a-disk/

macOS上已经有cloudmount实现了挂载S3到finder，但是不知道只是算一个快捷方式还是真的可以作为路径使用

#s3 #immich #backblaze #b2

刚刚试着完成了Mastodon的备份 :neofinder:
参考了蜗牛哥的 https://www.eallion.com/mastodon-backup ，以及GPT的指示
了解了备份的基本流程，接下来就是变成脚本然后设置为定时任务

先配置rclone链接到Backblaze b2
rclone config
图方便就把Application Keys删了，重新生成了Master Application Key

Rclone除了协议、account、key意外都不需要什么额外的配置
~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
[b2]
type = b2
account = $keyID$
key = $applicationKey$

rclone lsd b2:
查看buckt确认无误

基本备份流程：
备份 一些目录/文件 + 一个数据库 → 打包成带时间戳的 tar.gz → 用 rclone 传到多个云 → 清理本地

我需要备份的文件有：
compose.yaml
Dockerfile
.env.production
docker-compose.override.yml
mastodon.dump（数据库）

docker exec mastodon_dev_db \
pg_dump -Fc -U postgres postgres > mastodon.dump

我需要备份的目录有：
/home/jay/docker/social/mastodon/main/overrides

不需要备份的目录：
/home/jay/docker/social/mastodon/main/public（我的文件都在R2，本地无文件）
/home/jay/docker/social/mastodon/main/elasticsearch（索引可以重建）
/home/jay/docker/social/mastodon/main/redis (不是权威数据源)

接下来上传到backblaze
ts=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S") （打上时间戳）
tar -czf mastodon-dev-backup-${ts}.tar.gz \
compose.yaml \
Dockerfile \
.env.production \
docker-compose.override.yml \
mastodon.dump \
overrides
（打包为tar.gz）

rclone copy mastodon-dev-backup-${ts}.tar.gz b2:Hostdzire-SFO-Backup/ （上传到Backblaz的Hostdzire-SFO-Backup桶下）

验证上传：
rclone ls b2:Hostdzire-SFO-Backup | tail（输出文件）

删掉临时文件和本地备份：
rm -f mastodon.dump
rm -f mastodon-dev-backup-${ts}.tar.gz

#b2 #backblaze #rclone #backup #备份 #docker #tar #打包 #mastodon

Yo Fedi!

Is there anyone here who uses Backblaze with Linux? Do you use the CLI client and scripts, or a third-party tool from this list at the link? Infodump on me please.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/integrations?filter=backup

#backup #backblaze #linux #LinuxBackup

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Drive #Stats #Q3 #2025 #DataStorage #CloudBackup #TechInsights

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Drive #Stats #Q3 #2025 #DataStorage #CloudBackup #TechInsights

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Drive #Stats #Q3 #2025 #DataStorage #CloudBackup #TechInsights

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Drive #Stats #Q3 #2025 #DataStorage #CloudBackup #TechInsights

Die #UX mit #Passkeys ist in der Praxis himmeltraurig.

Ausnahme: #Github funktioniert super.

#Gitlab: Nur als 2. Faktor

#Migros: Funktioniert, verlangt aber unnötigerweise vorher die Mailadresse

#Swisspass: Nicht mit deiner Platform! (Firefox, PC)

#Infomaniak, #Backblaze, #Galaxus, #Swisscom, #Exoscale: Fehlanzeige.

Die #UX mit #Passkeys ist in der Praxis himmeltraurig.

Ausnahme: #Github funktioniert super.

#Gitlab: Nur als 2. Faktor

#Migros: Funktioniert, verlangt aber unnötigerweise vorher die Mailadresse

#Swisspass: Nicht mit deiner Platform! (Firefox, PC)

#Infomaniak, #Backblaze, #Galaxus, #Swisscom, #Exoscale: Fehlanzeige.

Die #UX mit #Passkeys ist in der Praxis himmeltraurig.

Ausnahme: #Github funktioniert super.

#Gitlab: Nur als 2. Faktor

#Migros: Funktioniert, verlangt aber unnötigerweise vorher die Mailadresse

#Swisspass: Nicht mit deiner Platform! (Firefox, PC)

#Infomaniak, #Backblaze, #Galaxus, #Swisscom, #Exoscale: Fehlanzeige.

Die #UX mit #Passkeys ist in der Praxis himmeltraurig.

Ausnahme: #Github funktioniert super.

#Gitlab: Nur als 2. Faktor

#Migros: Funktioniert, verlangt aber unnötigerweise vorher die Mailadresse

#Swisspass: Nicht mit deiner Platform! (Firefox, PC)

#Infomaniak, #Backblaze, #Galaxus, #Swisscom, #Exoscale: Fehlanzeige.

🔥Backblaze: A Loss-Making Data Storage Business Mired in Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, and Brazen Insider Dumping

｢ 4 months into selling his shares, Backblaze co-founder & CTO Brian Wilson wrote in an internal email, “if BLZE goes straight down to zero, each day I sold was beyond totally justified and I won’t regret it” shortly before resigning amidst continued share sales, according to Backblaze’s former VP of Investor Relations ｣

https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/

#backblaze #fraud #fatfire

Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling

https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/

#HackerNews #Backblaze #Mounting #Losses #Lawsuits #Sham #Accounting #Insider #Selling

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

I know its like a drop in the ocean but we sat down today and went through #US based services we use here in #JP. We cancelled #Spotify , #Youtube Premium, #Netflix (no replacements for now), #Amazon Prime (#Rakuten), plan to move our #IBKR portfolios over to Rakuten Securities and #Degiro , #Adobe CC. I am still looking for good replacement for #Cloudflare , #Backblaze and we need to decide what to do with #Apple iCloud and #Google One, GMail and their other services.

Trying out https://photosplus.app.

It is a bring-your-own-cloud #Mac, #iOS and #Android app for photo & video #backup. The apps are a little rough around the edges. For example, the menus and interactions are a bit weird.

But it does what it says on the tin. Keeping it around to see if this can help break dependency on Big Tech while also saving on storage costs.

I have tried both #Backblaze B2 and #Storj as storage backends on the app. So far Storj is much faster.

#PhotoPlus

Backblaze 的 2024 年全年統計

Backblaze 放出了全年的統計結果：「Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024」。

其中注意到的是 HGST 的 HUH721212ALE604 與 HUH721212ALN604 (只差一個 N 一個 E) 的 AFR 偏高：

另外這張圖也可以看出來這兩顆硬碟的 AFR 拉高了整個 HGST 的 AFR (因為這兩

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/02/12/12261/backblaze-%e7%9a%84-2024-%e5%b9%b4%e5%85%a8%e5%b9%b4%e7%b5%b1%e8%a8%88/

#Computer #Hardware #Murmuring #Network #Service #afr #annual #annualized #backblaze #disk #drive #failure #hard #hgst #rate #report #storage #year

#Backblaze #HardDrive Stats for 2024. Five drive models had zero failures for the quarter starting with the 24TB #Seagate drive model: ST24000NM002H. The others are the 4TB #HGST (model: HMS5C4040ALE640), the 8TB Seagate (model: ST8000NM000A), the 14TB Seagate (model: ST14000NM000J), and the 16TB Seagate (model: ST16000NM002J) https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/

I'm using #Backblaze #B2. My data (nightly #Nextcloud backups via #restic) is in region US West.

Anyone got recommendations for #equivalent services based in #Europe? Thank you!

Edit: recommendations in the replies. Thank you everyone!

#infosec #objectStorage

[Edits: added tags; added "Edit"]

Backblaze 的 2024Q2 硬碟報告

Backblaze 的 2024Q2 硬碟報告有些新的花樣：「Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024」。

先大概掃一下文字的部分，可以看到 HGST 這邊的 HUH721212ALN604 有狀況，用季計算的 AFR 偏高 (但還沒高到觸發到整個生命週期的 AFR 值)：

An HGST surprise: Over the years, the HG

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/08/09/11928/backblaze-%e7%9a%84-2024q2-%e7%a1%ac%e7%a2%9f%e5%a0%b1%e5%91%8a/

#Computer #Hardware #Murmuring #Network #Service #2024q2 #afr #backblaze #disk #drive #failure #hard #harddrive #hd #hdd #hgst #rate #report

After a lot of trial and error, I finally got object storage configured for this instance. I had originally planned to use Backblaze, but ended up going with Linode Object Storage. Unfortunately, the guides I found online didn't work for me, and I also had to make the switch from Caddy to Nginx. I'm thinking about writing a blog post to share my experience.

#mastoadmin #fedimin #fediadmin #s3 #linode #backblaze #nginx #caddyserver #mastodon

Backblaze 的 2024Q1 硬碟報告

Backblaze 放出 2024Q1 的硬碟報告：「Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024」。

往後拉可以先看到這張，直接對品牌分析：

可以看到一開始是 HGST 最低，後來變成 WDC 比較低。(因為 WDC 把 HGST 的很多產品線都改到 WDC 的企業級品牌下了)

另外是這張，有比較細一點硬碟型號資訊：

可以看到 WDC 這邊都是 WUH 開頭，都是 HGST 之前的型號。看起來後來就不太

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/05/07/11784/backblaze-%e7%9a%84-2024q1-%e7%a1%ac%e7%a2%9f%e5%a0%b1%e5%91%8a/

#Computer #Hardware #Murmuring #Network #Service #backblaze #disk #drive #hard #hdd #hgst #report #wdc

#Disk failure rates in #datacenters are falling, says #Backblaze
AFR for Q1 2024 was 1.41%. That’s down from Q4 2023 at 1.53%, and also down from one year ago (Q1 2023) at 1.54%.
“combination of a low lifetime AFR and a small confidence interval is helpful in identifying the drive models which work well in our environment,” Backblaze said
- 12TB #HGST
- 14TB drive models – #WDC (WUH721414ALE6L4), #Toshiba (MG07ACA14TA), #Seagate (ST14000NM001G)
- 16TB drive - WDC are best
https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/05/02/disk-failure-rates-in-data-centres-are-falling-says-backblaze/

Неадекватная стоимость исходящего трафика у некоторых облачных хостеров

Пользователи часто поднимают вопрос неадекватной стоимости исходящего трафика (egress) у отдельных облачных провайдеров. Если обычные хостеры не тарифицируют этот трафик, то некоторые другие сервисы устанавливают специальные тарифы . Как показывает практика, это может стать неприятным сюрпризом для клиентов.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/806689/

#ruvds_статьи #внешний_трафик #egress #тарифы #VPS #Bandwidth_Alliance #Civo #Cloudflare #Heroku #OVHcloud #Scaleway #Hetzner #Linode #Oracle_Cloud #Backblaze #Bunny_CDN #DigitalOcean #Entrywan #UpCloud #Vultr #Flyio #Koyeb #Alibaba_Cloud #Microsoft_Azure #Amazon_Web_Services #Railway #Zeabur #Google_Cloud #Vercel #Render #Netlify

Неадекватная стоимость исходящего трафика у некоторых облачных хостеров

Пользователи часто поднимают вопрос неадекватной стоимости исходящего трафика (egress) у отдельных облачных провайдеров. Если обычные хостеры не тарифицируют этот трафик, то некоторые другие сервисы устанавливают специальные тарифы . Как показывает практика, это может стать неприятным сюрпризом для клиентов.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/806689/

#ruvds_статьи #внешний_трафик #egress #тарифы #VPS #Bandwidth_Alliance #Civo #Cloudflare #Heroku #OVHcloud #Scaleway #Hetzner #Linode #Oracle_Cloud #Backblaze #Bunny_CDN #DigitalOcean #Entrywan #UpCloud #Vultr #Flyio #Koyeb #Alibaba_Cloud #Microsoft_Azure #Amazon_Web_Services #Railway #Zeabur #Google_Cloud #Vercel #Render #Netlify

Неадекватная стоимость исходящего трафика у некоторых облачных хостеров

Пользователи часто поднимают вопрос неадекватной стоимости исходящего трафика (egress) у отдельных облачных провайдеров. Если обычные хостеры не тарифицируют этот трафик, то некоторые другие сервисы устанавливают специальные тарифы . Как показывает практика, это может стать неприятным сюрпризом для клиентов.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/806689/

#ruvds_статьи #внешний_трафик #egress #тарифы #VPS #Bandwidth_Alliance #Civo #Cloudflare #Heroku #OVHcloud #Scaleway #Hetzner #Linode #Oracle_Cloud #Backblaze #Bunny_CDN #DigitalOcean #Entrywan #UpCloud #Vultr #Flyio #Koyeb #Alibaba_Cloud #Microsoft_Azure #Amazon_Web_Services #Railway #Zeabur #Google_Cloud #Vercel #Render #Netlify