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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by bimbashrestha on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:01PM (#30581725)
I think decentralized storage + Blobbackup could make for an interesting pairing. I'll make time to look into it.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by crossroadsguy on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:55AM (#30587172)
So as of now I can use it your app and to b2?

Because that’s where my restic backups go to (natively).

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by crossroadsguy on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:14AM (#30588716)
I tried the app and I did notice the first screen is "Select Storage Location" after you try to add a new backup and it lists: local dir, aws, gc, azure, b2, s3, sftp.

So I indeed guess it can as well be used as restic frontend (but I am not really sure to what extent it uses restic and whether blobbackup is just a gui/skin for restic)

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by bimbashrestha on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:00PM (#30590244)
Hey! Thanks for trying the app.

I think you may have tried our original app (the original folder in the github repo). I need to clean up the Releases page. That version used a custom backup engine and allowed backups to a number of storage providers (S3, B2, SFTP, etc).

The new app uses restic as the backup engine and only supports backups to B2 right now. Sorry for the confusion.

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by crossroadsguy on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:25PM (#30595445)
So I’m using restic currently (barebones; with scripts). And I pay for storage on b2.

Should I download it from elsewhere? Isn’t Blobbackup opensource?

Can I use blobbackup instead to do the same only that Blobbackup will be a gui for Restic?

As an analogy - what is Vorta for Borg.

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by bimbashrestha on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#30599650)
Yoh can download the binaries if you create an account! I should also just put the new binaries on the release page. I'll do that soon
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by rsync on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:39AM (#30589939)
Ahhh … sftp is a choice.

Great job!