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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by senkora on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:01PM (#47768233)
+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”.

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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:19PM (#47768441)
Bidirectional file sync is also in hot demand from people who don't know the words, "file", "client", "write", "async", "available", or "time"

:P

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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by babypuncher on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:49PM (#47769688)
The fact that lay people can and will use a tool incorrectly does not mean said tool is not useful
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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by unsettledturtle on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @09:24PM (#47787579)
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.
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