Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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)

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!

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