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0 pointslud_lite11mo ago0 comments

It's one of two backups. The software is great. Dropbox level of just works. iDrive by comparison is cheaper but always errors and files it couldn't touch.

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nikisweeting11mo ago

Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter...

rsync11mo ago

"Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter..."

Gosh, if only there were a cloud storage provider that gave you an empty UNIX filesystem you could do anything you wanted with ... maybe something built totally on open standards that could handle hardlinks and symlinks and such ?

If only ...

nikisweeting11mo ago

I've wanted to use ya'll for a long time but the ~2x price compared to B2 has always stopped me. A remote ZFS cloud really is such an attractive idea though... maybe it's time to reconsider after this article.

cantrecallmypwd11mo ago

tarsnap, mega ;)

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mingus8811mo ago

I use restic with b2 as a backend

It’s not the same service as backblaze’s client but it does everything I need, with dedupe

nikisweeting11mo ago

Yeah I use duplicati, basically the same, it slow but works well and has saved my bacon a few times in real-world situations.

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nikisweeting11mo ago

Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter...

rsync11mo ago

"Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter..."

If only ...

nikisweeting11mo ago

cantrecallmypwd11mo ago

tarsnap, mega ;)

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mingus8811mo ago

I use restic with b2 as a backend

It’s not the same service as backblaze’s client but it does everything I need, with dedupe

nikisweeting11mo ago

Yeah I use duplicati, basically the same, it slow but works well and has saved my bacon a few times in real-world situations.

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