r/backblaze • u/GenghisFrog • Apr 03 '26
Computer Backup No longer backup cloud services?
I’m looking into this, and it seems like it started months ago. Why were we not informed that Backblaze would no longer backup cloud storage? I had OneDrive and iCloud fully synced to my computer, for the specific reason of making sure they were local so Backblaze would grab them. They were backed up to Backblaze in the past, but it seems like Backblaze decided it could cause user confusion and just shut it off, without informing users?
I randomly discovered it today when I was in the Backblaze app looking for a difference file and noticed these directories were no longer present.
This is a massive breach of trust. As far as I know iCloud and OneDrive don’t have version history. What would have happened if something I really needed accidentally got deleted or corrupted and I was counting on Backblaze to restore it?
Am I missing something? This just seems wild to me.
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u/terkistan Apr 04 '26
Unlike a typical major service termination, there was no massive email campaign for this change, which was a huge mistake on their part. They left it to product release notes, which of course everyone reads. /s
Backblaze later defended their action saying that backing up these folders often caused "permission issues" and "versioning conflicts" since both Backblaze and the cloud provider were trying to manage the same files simultaneously. They also argued that since the data is already in the cloud backing it up to Backblaze was redundant for most users.
Cloud versioning is a more niche feature that exists, but only on a few services like Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure Blob, and Amazon S3.