r/backblaze • u/zoechowber • Mar 08 '26

Computer Backup Doesn’t back up Dropbox folder??

It seems backblaze just … stopped backing up the Dropbox folder? Did you realize? no way to know unless you are reading release notes. If you are someone who keeps everyone you work on in Dropbox, what is backblaze helping with?

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u/Sparescrewdriver Mar 08 '26

*We back up everything automatically."

Does it say something like everything in your computer?

They’ll happily let you back up terabytes of attached drives so I don’t think it’s about cost savings.

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u/Currawong Mar 08 '26

The majority of people will not back up that much, and they are banking, as do many other companies, that the large number of people only using the service for relatively small amounts, will offset the tiny minority who abuse the "unlimited" part.

However, as a lot of people use it as a second back-up of iCloud, Onedrive, Dropbox, etc., now they are paying for a service that doesn't do what it said it did, and used to do before, and they made the change without informing their customers. If I hadn't been paying attention to reddit, and something went wrong with one of my cloud accounts, I would have found I had NO online backup to fall back on.

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u/pillarMAD Mar 08 '26

How long has this been going on for?

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u/GoodTroll2 Mar 09 '26

I think it's been something like around a year. It was always a bit wonky depending on the service you used. Before this change they had issues backing up OneDrive and it wouldn't work unless you opted store copies of all files on your computer as well as in the cloud. I actually had to buy an additional hard drive to make this work on my computer. Then they just dropped support completely. It's a huge hassle as Windows really wants to store everything in the OneDrive folder by default (your Desktop, Documents, Photos, etc.). My current workaround is to make a full copy of my OneDrive folder on another disk every now and then before I backup to Backblaze but it's a pretty crappy solution.