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I wish I had a personal use case where the pricing of rsync.net made sense. It looks like a great service. For now, I use Backblaze Unlimited. I realize they ar

by lokl 6y ago

I wish I had a personal use case where the pricing of rsync.net made sense. It looks like a great service. For now, I use Backblaze Unlimited. I realize they are not the same service, but Backblaze works for my personal stuff and the price is great.

tiernano 6y ago
I like backblaze, dont get me wrong, but my issue with them was their software is Windows Client and Mac OS only... No Linux or Windows Server offerings... My desktop runs either Windows Server 2019 or Linux... I havent run a desktop class verison of Windows on a phsyical workstation in years... As an aside, i use RSync and their Borg Backup option[1] for backing up my Linux box, and Windows is backed up to that Linux box too... works well... Borg can be gotten to work with B2[2], but its a bit more messing... [1]:https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html [2]:https://medium.com/@mormesher/building-your-own-linux-cloud-backup-system-75750f47d550 https://medium.com/@mormesher/building-your-own-linux-cloud-...
audience_mem 6y ago
> Backblaze Test your backups. https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-review-data-loss/ https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-rev...
- lokl 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing this.
  - audience_mem 6y ago
    No problem. I hate the thought of data loss. They may be better now, but who knows, it's worth being sure.
- bombcar 6y ago
  People think of backblaze as a backup/archive but it is explicitly not an archive - it is a backup and if you delete a file on your system it is purged within 30 days from the copy. Most people don’t really think about this and expect that any backup is AlSO an archive. You can get burned by this and have to use b2 or whatever it is instead.
  - Dylan16807 6y ago
    What? That article is about how it utterly failed as a backup, with files that were still on drives or had just been on drives but couldn't be downloaded.

by lokl 6y ago

tiernano 6y ago

I like backblaze, dont get me wrong, but my issue with them was their software is Windows Client and Mac OS only... No Linux or Windows Server offerings... My desktop runs either Windows Server 2019 or Linux... I havent run a desktop class verison of Windows on a phsyical workstation in years... As an aside, i use RSync and their Borg Backup option[1] for backing up my Linux box, and Windows is backed up to that Linux box too... works well... Borg can be gotten to work with B2[2], but its a bit more messing... [1]:https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html [2]:https://medium.com/@mormesher/building-your-own-linux-cloud-backup-system-75750f47d550 https://medium.com/@mormesher/building-your-own-linux-cloud-...

audience_mem 6y ago

> Backblaze Test your backups. https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-review-data-loss/ https://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/backblaze-rev...

lokl 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this.
- audience_mem 6y ago
  No problem. I hate the thought of data loss. They may be better now, but who knows, it's worth being sure.
bombcar 6y ago
People think of backblaze as a backup/archive but it is explicitly not an archive - it is a backup and if you delete a file on your system it is purged within 30 days from the copy. Most people don’t really think about this and expect that any backup is AlSO an archive. You can get burned by this and have to use b2 or whatever it is instead.
- Dylan16807 6y ago
  What? That article is about how it utterly failed as a backup, with files that were still on drives or had just been on drives but couldn't be downloaded.