Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by rsync on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @02:11PM (#47782971)

We will continue to specialize in filesystem provision, not object storage.

However, we do support interoperating with block storage, such as 's5cmd':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248372

... and, of course, rclone, which you can invoke remotely, on our end to move data between cloud accounts, etc.

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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by subhobroto on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:04PM (#47783681)

Thank You for that link!

> not object storage

Happy to email you, if that's better, but is this because of unsustainable competition in the space or the tremendous volatility in consumption that object storage customers bring to the table?

I ask because in this current market, I would imagine investing in storage infrastructure is painful, but then I wonder, you are still in the storage infrastructure space anyways, so it likely has to do with the user behavior or user expectations or both.

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Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data by rsync on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:19PM (#47799627)

Not supporting S3 (and block storage) is not a business decision - it is an ideological decision.

We want to live in a world of UNIX filesystems and we want those to be available in the modern "cloud" ecosystem.

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