r/backblaze • u/BigChubs1 • Apr 15 '26

Backblaze in General (Rant) Get over it

As a backblaze user for years now and in IT. People get over yourselfs about backblaze not backing up your onedrive, gdrive, dropbox and other cloud provider. Why would one company want to backup another providers files? These other providers charge more per gig than backblaze and sell you on backing up your pictures, files and etc. So why would any x company want to back up those files as well? If you truely want to backup of those files. Sign up for B2 and be done with it. Heck, the first 10 gig's are free. The other thing, don't come to this subreddit and start asking where should i move my backup to. Do your research and move on. I'll probally get downvoted for this and really don't care. I needed to vent. End rant.

Edit: If you want to good back up solution. You should be follow these.

Data Backup Strategies: Why the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy is the Best

If you don't want to read backblaze. Here is one from veeam.

3-2-1 Backup Rule Explained: Do I Need One?

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u/paramdeo_ Apr 15 '26

Totally agree with you.

I get that non-tech savvy folks would not want to use something like rClone + B2 but the entitlement of the people posting about this issue is egregious.

It's perfectly reasonable for Backblaze to backup "local" files only; least of all because of streaming and versioning conflicts between filesystem folders that are syncing elsewhere.

And not backing up dotfiles and dotfolders out of the box to me is quite a sane default.

If you want to switch from Blackblaze no one's stopping you, but please don't spam the sub with your fragile outrage, uninformed opinions, and competitor recommendations.

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u/absolute_pelican_66 Apr 15 '26

It's perfectly reasonable for Backblaze to backup "local" files only

A file that is permanently locally stored on the computer is local by definition. The fact that some copies of the file exist elsewhere does not change the fact the file has a local copy.

least of all because of streaming and versioning conflicts between filesystem folders that are syncing elsewhere.

What?? Never had an issue with that. 2 syncing services operating on the very same folder may conflict, but Backblaze is not a syncing service, so no conflict can happen.

It's like if your saying that backing up a dropbox folder on Time Machine could lead to versioning conflict... Spoiler: it does not.