Re:Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod
by bananabob on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @02:52PM
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I have the same problems as well with the OS X client. It definitely has issues handling external drives. It somehow doesn't display my exclusions of files on external drives anymore, but somehow is still following them.
I'm really happy with their service (had it for ~2 years now), but would love to have a tool similar to how you describe with reduced bugginess and more tweaking ability.
Re:Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod
by bananabob on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @01:35PM
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To follow up on this, it actually turns out the configuration for backblaze on OS X is in XML and tweakable. It can be found in /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bzdata/bzinfo.xml
Re:Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod
by atYevP on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @01:47PM
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Hi! @YevP from Backblaze here -> Have you tried to write in to support? They can take a look at the account and see if they can figure out why that oddness is occurring? https://www.backblaze.com/help.html.
Sadly their OS X client is kind of quirky—I'd rather have a command-line one that required hand-editing configuration files (I'd wish for something other than XML though), but which would run more reliably and transparently.
(Currently it shows “Computer Missing” and says that I haven't backed up in more than 2 weeks, though I did actually press Backup Now quite a few times in past few days. There're some other oddities in behavior. I suspect I'm back into “searching for decent online backup solution” mode lately…)