[ryanmercer]

I really miss Backblaze. I was a customer for years and years and actually was fortunate (I guess?) enough to have to use them to recover around a terabyte once but when I switched to using a Chromebox as my daily driver (then a Chromebox 2) I found I was turning my Windows machine on once a month just to keep kosher with the Backblaze servers.

Such a great service and I still always look forward to the emails, stuff like the drive failure rates is always a neat read!

[lostlogin]

> I found I was turning my Windows machine on once a month just to keep kosher with the Backblaze servers

I’ve been burnt badly by this, I wish there was a better way. I was in the habit of doing this and when I fired the drive up for some reason it failed to be backed up and the backup was deleted at their end. 1TB had to be re-uploaded on a 4Mbps connection. I know I shouldn’t have done the backup on the last day (no data had changed) but wow was that irritating.

[ryanmercer]

Fortunately for me I realized none of the 5~ terabytes on that machine mattered whatsoever as I never actually used any of it.

I would archive podcasts I liked, download YT videos I found worthy of it, I had 100gb or so of 9/11 news coverage from the day of the attacks and the next few days, insane amounts of exes for pretty much every revision of every scrap of software I used in case I ever wanted to go back to an old version, insane amounts of images from where I'd rip entire tumblr accounts based around different fandoms/topics, I had half a century of Lodge meeting minutes for one of my Lodges scanned as high-resolution OCRd pdfs, entire websites I'd wget for offline (why?!) viewing etc. It's all presumably still there but I haven't turned that box on in about a year now.

Man, switching to a Chromebox was so freeing.

[scarface74]

With the new service, they are announcing, that shouldn’t be an issue.