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Backblaze does not back up disk images. It's a documented limitation. I just found this out the hard way.

baobabKoodaa 2y ago
That can't be right. After all, "Backblaze automatically finds your photos, music, documents, and data and backs it up. So you never have to worry."
- bifftastic 2y ago
  Actually to be fair on BB you can override this behaviour. But you have to know...
  - ykonstant 2y ago
    Can you share the know?
    - justusthane 2y ago
      You just have to go into the preferences on the Backblaze client and adjust the exclusions. Mac: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exclusions-mac https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc... Windows: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exclusions-windows https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...
      - baobabKoodaa 2y ago
        Exactly. Just adjust the exclusions. See, you never have to worry. Backblaze automatically backs up all your data for you.
dataflow360 2y ago
There are certain file types that are excluded by default, but you can adjust these in BB's Prefs. (Disclaimer: I'm a BB customer with 70TB backed up with them.)
- notachatbot123 2y ago
  On what kind of plan?
  - Hamuko 2y ago
    Isn’t there just the one plan?
    - MurkyLabs 2y ago
      no there's 2 from what I can see; there's the computer back up which is $99/year and then there's the b2 backup which is $6/TB/Month
      - Hamuko 2y ago
        Those aren't different plans, they're different products. B2 is also not a backup product but an object storage product.
  - tobyhinloopen 2y ago
    BackBlaze allows "unlimited" backups for any drive attached to your PC. So if you have >=70TB on your machine...
chlorion 2y ago
A disk image is just a file though. Does it do some sort of analysis of files and block disk images somehow? Maybe you mean that it doesnt do image-level backups by default?
- fl0id 2y ago
  it doesn't do image level backups anyway. it just excludes certain file types by default, probably also cache directories as far as I remember
ktm5j 2y ago
I wrote some code a while ago that gpg-encrypted zfs snapshots and stored them in backblaze b2.. Just because they don't have software that backs up disk images for you doesn't mean you can't make that happen yourself!

That can't be right. After all, "Backblaze automatically finds your photos, music, documents, and data and backs it up. So you never have to worry."

bifftastic 2y ago
Actually to be fair on BB you can override this behaviour. But you have to know...
- ykonstant 2y ago
  Can you share the know?
  - justusthane 2y ago
    You just have to go into the preferences on the Backblaze client and adjust the exclusions. Mac: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exclusions-mac https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc... Windows: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exclusions-windows https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...
    - baobabKoodaa 2y ago
      Exactly. Just adjust the exclusions. See, you never have to worry. Backblaze automatically backs up all your data for you.

dataflow360 2y ago

There are certain file types that are excluded by default, but you can adjust these in BB's Prefs. (Disclaimer: I'm a BB customer with 70TB backed up with them.)

notachatbot123 2y ago
On what kind of plan?
- Hamuko 2y ago
  Isn’t there just the one plan?
  - MurkyLabs 2y ago
    no there's 2 from what I can see; there's the computer back up which is $99/year and then there's the b2 backup which is $6/TB/Month
    - Hamuko 2y ago
      Those aren't different plans, they're different products. B2 is also not a backup product but an object storage product.
- tobyhinloopen 2y ago
  BackBlaze allows "unlimited" backups for any drive attached to your PC. So if you have >=70TB on your machine...

chlorion 2y ago

A disk image is just a file though. Does it do some sort of analysis of files and block disk images somehow? Maybe you mean that it doesnt do image-level backups by default?

fl0id 2y ago
it doesn't do image level backups anyway. it just excludes certain file types by default, probably also cache directories as far as I remember

ktm5j 2y ago

I wrote some code a while ago that gpg-encrypted zfs snapshots and stored them in backblaze b2.. Just because they don't have software that backs up disk images for you doesn't mean you can't make that happen yourself!