Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by tbagman on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:33AM (#47767019)

Just a note of caution: sync != backup. When I was younger and dumber, I had my own rsync cron script to do a nightly sync of my documents to a remote server. One day I noticed files were gone from my local drive; I think there were block corruptions on the disk itself, and the files were dropped from the filesystem, or something like that. The nightly rsync propagated the deletions to the remote "backup."

D'argh.

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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by Terr_ on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:31PM (#47768594)

Musing: There's a step further along the spectrum that echoes the relationship, where where "backup" != "backup that resists malware".

In other words, a backup can be degraded into a sync-to-nothing situation if the client logic is untrustworthy.

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