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

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

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

🚨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

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.

🖥️ 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

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 has stopped backing up your data

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

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

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"]

What does everyone use for #backups these days? At the moment I am using: 1) for my #Macs: #TimeMachine for local backups to two different drives; #Arq to two offsite destinations (#idrive e2 and #backblaze b2); 2) "normal" servers: #restic to both iDrive e2 and Backblaze B2; 3) #kubernetes: #velero and #kasten. What about you?

MacOS Tahoe 26.3 External Drive Mounting Issues

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

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/

@benjaminhollon For remote backup storage it may be worth checking out #Backblaze, #Wasabi, or #iDrive for pretty cost effective solutions.

For a bit more #Cloudflare can enter the mix as well.

Recap on Mastodon instance storage:
- ZFS 5400rpm HDD: too slow with hundreds of thousands small files
- Storj: too expensive in the long run because of the segment fee($0.0000088)
- IDrive e2: timeouts on media upload 20% of time (over 1 minute object put time in some cases)
- Backblaze B2: works well and I will probably settle on it

#mastodon #storj #BackblazeB2 #backblaze #s3 #idrive #idrivee2 #zfs

S3 Storage:
What is your (current) S3 Service of choice?
Why?
How many you have already tested?
Weird things you experienced?

#s3 #s3Storage #wasabi #digitalocean #aws #gcs #clourflareR2 #storj #idrive #backblaze

S3 Storage:
What is your (current) S3 Service of choice?
Why?
How many you have already tested?
Weird things you experienced?

#s3 #s3Storage #wasabi #digitalocean #aws #gcs #clourflareR2 #storj #idrive #backblaze

S3 Storage:
What is your (current) S3 Service of choice?
Why?
How many you have already tested?
Weird things you experienced?

#s3 #s3Storage #wasabi #digitalocean #aws #gcs #clourflareR2 #storj #idrive #backblaze

S3 Storage:
What is your (current) S3 Service of choice?
Why?
How many you have already tested?
Weird things you experienced?

#s3 #s3Storage #wasabi #digitalocean #aws #gcs #clourflareR2 #storj #idrive #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

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

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

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

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

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

🔥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 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

TrueNAS Cloud Sync to a service like Backblazes B2 is useless (for me).

I would like to backup my photo archive from home to a remote location. Preferably in such a way that there is one big upload to start off with, and then much smaller incremental uploads when new data is added.

Doing a 3TB upload everyday, and overwriting already uploaded files doesn't make for a good backup practice.

#Backup #TrueNAS #ZFS #BackBlaze #CloudSync

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

Just got our #MastoInstance switched over to #Cloudflare fronting of our existing #BackBlaze #B2 #S3 bucket. Free egress for all media when you run B2 -> Cloudflare. Pretty slick. Best instructions I found so far: https://techbits.io/free-s3-egress-backblaze-b2-cloudflare/

Just a VERY important tidbit (somewhat alluded to in the comments) We had S3 working without the S3_ALIAS_HOST variable. But without it, #Mastodon kept including the bucket name in the path. Set it to your subdomain.domain.com/bucket_name and it works!

Just got our #MastoInstance switched over to #Cloudflare fronting of our existing #BackBlaze #B2 #S3 bucket. Free egress for all media when you run B2 -> Cloudflare. Pretty slick. Best instructions I found so far: https://techbits.io/free-s3-egress-backblaze-b2-cloudflare/

Just a VERY important tidbit (somewhat alluded to in the comments) We had S3 working without the S3_ALIAS_HOST variable. But without it, #Mastodon kept including the bucket name in the path. Set it to your subdomain.domain.com/bucket_name and it works!

Just got our #MastoInstance switched over to #Cloudflare fronting of our existing #BackBlaze #B2 #S3 bucket. Free egress for all media when you run B2 -> Cloudflare. Pretty slick. Best instructions I found so far: https://techbits.io/free-s3-egress-backblaze-b2-cloudflare/

Just a VERY important tidbit (somewhat alluded to in the comments) We had S3 working without the S3_ALIAS_HOST variable. But without it, #Mastodon kept including the bucket name in the path. Set it to your subdomain.domain.com/bucket_name and it works!

Just got our #MastoInstance switched over to #Cloudflare fronting of our existing #BackBlaze #B2 #S3 bucket. Free egress for all media when you run B2 -> Cloudflare. Pretty slick. Best instructions I found so far: https://techbits.io/free-s3-egress-backblaze-b2-cloudflare/

Just a VERY important tidbit (somewhat alluded to in the comments) We had S3 working without the S3_ALIAS_HOST variable. But without it, #Mastodon kept including the bucket name in the path. Set it to your subdomain.domain.com/bucket_name and it works!

Just got our #MastoInstance switched over to #Cloudflare fronting of our existing #BackBlaze #B2 #S3 bucket. Free egress for all media when you run B2 -> Cloudflare. Pretty slick. Best instructions I found so far: https://techbits.io/free-s3-egress-backblaze-b2-cloudflare/

Just a VERY important tidbit (somewhat alluded to in the comments) We had S3 working without the S3_ALIAS_HOST variable. But without it, #Mastodon kept including the bucket name in the path. Set it to your subdomain.domain.com/bucket_name and it works!

How have I not done this earlier? Free egress for my #MastoInstance S3 storage on #BackBlaze #B2

https://geek-cookbook.funkypenguin.co.nz/blog/2023/02/09/run-mastodon-and-media-behind-cdn/