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
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?
With the recent change to #backblaze, I think I'm going back to #pCloud from Dropbox. I just tested and pCloud can sync folders on an external drive, and Backblaze still backs that up. Dropbox Mac makes you use one folder on the internal drive which already has limited space.
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
If you backup your computers with Backblaze you need to be aware of this issue https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/
Wtf backblaze? They quietly stopped backing up common cloud sync folders like DropBox and .git folders. I only use them for s3, but this is a really concerning change in policy.
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