I used to love Backblaze until I dug in a bit more and realized the product is unreliable.
Quoted from my own past comment[0]:
1. The client will lie to you and you never know what’s really backed up. Even if you use the secret alt-click to force a full drive scan, it can still miss files and tell you fully backed up when files from days ago are still nowhere to be found. Luckily I’ve never actually needed to do a restore, but I almost thought I did one time and would have been furious at all the missing files I noticed.
2. This might not matter to some people but absolutely no meta data is backed up.
voisin|2 years ago
aikinai|2 years ago
Quoted from my own past comment[0]:
1. The client will lie to you and you never know what’s really backed up. Even if you use the secret alt-click to force a full drive scan, it can still miss files and tell you fully backed up when files from days ago are still nowhere to be found. Luckily I’ve never actually needed to do a restore, but I almost thought I did one time and would have been furious at all the missing files I noticed.
2. This might not matter to some people but absolutely no meta data is backed up.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301626
ph4te|2 years ago