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by bifftastic 500 days ago
Backblaze does not back up disk images. It's a documented limitation.

I just found this out the hard way.
4 comments
dataflow360 500 days ago
There are certain file types that are excluded by default, but you can adjust these in BB's Prefs.

(Disclaimer: I'm a BB customer with 70TB backed up with them.)

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notachatbot123 500 days ago
On what kind of plan?
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tobyhinloopen 500 days ago
BackBlaze allows "unlimited" backups for any drive attached to your PC. So if you have >=70TB on your machine...
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Hamuko 500 days ago
Isn’t there just the one plan?
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MurkyLabs 500 days ago
no there's 2 from what I can see; there's the computer back up which is $99/year and then there's the b2 backup which is $6/TB/Month
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Hamuko 500 days ago
Those aren't different plans, they're different products. B2 is also not a backup product but an object storage product.
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baobabKoodaa 500 days ago
That can't be right. After all, "Backblaze automatically finds your photos, music, documents, and data and backs it up. So you never have to worry."
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bifftastic 500 days ago
Actually to be fair on BB you can override this behaviour. But you have to know...
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ykonstant 500 days ago
Can you share the know?
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justusthane 500 days ago
You just have to go into the preferences on the Backblaze client and adjust the exclusions.

Mac: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...

Windows: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...

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baobabKoodaa 500 days ago
Exactly. Just adjust the exclusions. See, you never have to worry. Backblaze automatically backs up all your data for you.
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chlorion 500 days ago
A disk image is just a file though. Does it do some sort of analysis of files and block disk images somehow?

Maybe you mean that it doesnt do image-level backups by default?

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fl0id 500 days ago
it doesn't do image level backups anyway. it just excludes certain file types by default, probably also cache directories as far as I remember
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ktm5j 500 days ago
I wrote some code a while ago that gpg-encrypted zfs snapshots and stored them in backblaze b2.. Just because they don't have software that backs up disk images for you doesn't mean you can't make that happen yourself!
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