Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by senkora on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:01PM
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+1. It works perfectly if your mental model is:
“Every file is only ever written to from a single client, and will be asynchronously made available to all other clients, and after some period of time has elapsed you can safely switch to always writing to the file from a different client”.
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:19PM
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Bidirectional file sync is also in hot demand from people who don't know the words, "file", "client", "write", "async", "available", or "time"
:P
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by babypuncher on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:49PM
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The fact that lay people can and will use a tool incorrectly does not mean said tool is not useful
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by unsettledturtle on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:24PM
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Yep. See e.g. steam cloud saves, which is literally just Dropbox for your video game save files. Bidi sync is a super common pattern if you look for it, I'm surprised at all the hate it's getting here.
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by donmcronald on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:12PM
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> And if I ever do have one, my real backup solution has me covered.
What do you use and how do you test / reconcile to make sure it’s not missing files? I find OneDrive extremely hard to deal with because the backup systems don’t seem to be 100% reliable.
I think there are a lot of solutions these days that error on the side of claiming success.
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
by andrejserafim on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:36PM
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I agree. I use syncthing for syncing phones and laptops. For data like photos, which aren't really updated. It works very nice. And for documents updated by one user, moving between devices is totally seamless.
That being said i understand how it works at a high level.
It works perfectly fine as long as you keep how it works in mind, and probably most importantly don't have multiple users working directly on the same file at once.
I've been using these systems for over a decade at this point and never had a problem. And if I ever do have one, my real backup solution has me covered.