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Re:Backblaze IPO by teraflop on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:07AM (#29091552)
For many years, they were consistently and very diplomatically saying that they had no plans to offer Backblaze Personal Backup to Linux users, because Linux users would use a disproportionately large amount of storage and it wouldn't make sense to offer them a flat-rate alternative to the pay-per-GB B2 option.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/jsrqoz/personal_...

It seems that they may be changing their tune, at least as of a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/m3xynu/backblaze...

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Re:Backblaze IPO by Chilinot on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:35AM (#29092575)
As a linux user, i have just setup my own backup solution to backblaze using Rclone and their S3 compatible storage.
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Re:Backblaze IPO by tallanvor on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:27AM (#29092849)
Which is fine and all, but then you're paying per gb/month. Depending on how much you want to back up, it can cost you a lot more than the personal plan.
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Re:Backblaze IPO by Chilinot on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:46PM (#29100728)
Eh, im storing about 1.3TB of photos, its costing me around $10/month. That is an acceptable cost IMO.
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