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Re:Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond by sjwright on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:31PM (#21199748)
Backup means that if it takes me 6 months to realise that the 2014 finances folder had been accidentally deleted, I can still recover it.

I'd love to see BackBlaze offer the option to select "mission critical" folders that have super-long-life (Time Machine-like) version retention. Give everyone a few gigabytes of this for free, charge a premium to increase that space.

Re:Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:22PM (#21208800)
Though that sounds tricky to set up all the UI for. For now you can set up a separate backup of that stuff. Set B2 as the backend and you get 10GB free.
Re:Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond by sjwright on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:18PM (#21209620)
Maybe—and the UI could be little more than a script that does exactly what you described.

The point of making it a UI is, first and foremost, to get people thinking about this question. And it gives people the option to acheive what you just described without stumbling upon a post like yours on Hacker News.

Re:Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @10:55PM (#21210394)
A post like mine? But it's your post that has the idea...? The only thing I said about how to make it possible is "separate backup", which anyone can think of in two seconds and is only a hint of a tenth of an explanation. I don't understand.