Uhg. Where do I go now? I really just ultimately want encrypted zfs replication…
Backblaze is a service I really depend on, and one I’ve recommended. However they’re still not profitable and investor money isnt going to keep them afloat forever.
Backblaze, Shmackblaze
What is an “AI storage service”?
Does that mean you just store your info in AI weights/contexts and hope it can regenerate an approximation of what you put in?
It’s s3 compatible storage (b2) you sell to companies using AI for twice as much.
b2 storage is $6/Tb/mo, AI storage is b2 storage at $15/Tb/mo.
It’s like selling special gold shovels during a gold rush that are better at shoveling gold.
Oh god, i know thats not possible and here come the startups to pitch it.
I got sick of paying for backblaze. Duplicati is a good free solution. You just need cloud storage to use it, which you might already be paying for in other services.
I use borgbase. It’s not the same, but it’s cheap and not stored in the US.
I just set up a launchd task on my Mac to run my Borg jobs and I never have to think about it. You could do the same with systemd on linux. If you’re on Windows why are you still on Windows?
That’s not surprising with all of the data hoarders abusing the unlimited backups to store hundreds of terabytes.
How is that abuse? “Unlimited” is a pretty audacious plan to offer. Maybe Backblaze shouldn’t offer something impossible.
The software only allows local drives to be backed up, but some people use workarounds to make it backup a large NAS or server.
But that’s not who is being targeted with the changes Backblaze has made. By silently excluding sync folders, they’re casting a wide net and hoping it will catch those who use workarounds. It might, but in the process it reveals their comfort with deceptive business practices and harms users of the backup service who are not using workarounds.
Are they boosting their AI business in anticipation of breaking encryption and then training their models on everyone’s data? That’s what I would assume of a company I no longer trust.
Yeah, screw those people. I can’t think of a single other reason a profit driven company would cut corners while storage prices rise due to AI companies.
I’m asking as a genuine question, where or how should people backup large datastores? Also what counts as too large? I’ve heard Backblaze doesn’t cover NAS so i wouldn’t be able to backup my 2TB zfs RAID, but like is that too much?
I want to do 3-2-1 for my homelab to preserve all pictures in my immich and the backups of my LXCs and VMs, but I’m just not sure how to go about it, and I was considering archives of those files + backblaze…
Hard to say thats it if just having 2TB uploaded is enough to be considered in the top.
Especially if they’ve already started ignoring other cloud files in people’s backups
Yeah, a few hundred outliers can really ruin it. People: have some self awareness and don’t be a douchebag.
You’re talking to the crowd where if it can be done, it should be done, and bragged about. Sadly.
Well that sucks. I use Backblaze and it has saved my ass more than once.
