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What object storage services would you recommend? I tried Hetzner's object storage, but it felt like they kept raising the prices month after month. I usually use Backblaze and haven't been able to find anything better so far. #s3 #objectstorage #object #storage #backblaze #hetzner #b2

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Peter B.6d ago

@eblack Roger that.

Shall your "cloud copy" be your primary pool, or just for backup/access copies?

I haven't done any price-comparisons to AWS, but for example, #Backblaze is a more open (and friendly?) cloud-storage provider:

https://www.backblaze.com/why-backblaze

Backblaze: The Leading Storage Solution in the Open Cloud

Learn how Backblaze's innovative, low cost cloud storage and backup solutions can help solve your backup and archive, storage, and development needs.

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Marcel Waldvogel May 6

*️⃣ Wer glaubt, er habe „unlimited Backup“ bezahlt, kann sich irren. So hat der bekannte #Backup-Dienst #Backblaze begonnen, seinem „unlimited“-Angebot Limiten zu setzen. Hier gilt also ganz besonders, was auch sonst bei jedem Backup gilt: Regelmässig zu überprüfen, ob auch wirklich alle wichtigen Daten ins Backup kommen und ob man sie auch wieder zurückbekommen kann.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/backblaze-redefines-unlimited-while-users-discover-its-not-backing-up-dropbox-and-onedrive-service-changes-could-signal-shift-away-from-home-backups

Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.

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Michael May 5

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

#selfhosting #proxmox #backblaze

Re-verifying failed backups with Proxmox Backup Server - blog.thms.uk

A simple script to re-verify failed backups in Proxmox Backup Server

blog.thms.uk

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Chris Mills May 4

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.

briancmoses.com Apr 21

Do you still trust #Backblaze now that it's quietly stopped backing up your data?

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese's Website

James Wilcox Apr 20

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.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/backblaze-redefines-unlimited-while-users-discover-its-not-backing-up-dropbox-and-onedrive-service-changes-could-signal-shift-away-from-home-backups

Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.

Tom's Hardware

amah_codes Apr 20

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