How much data? How often does it change? A common pattern is software like Restic saving to any S3 compatible service. There are quite a few, but one of the common, and affordable, one is B2 from backblaze.

You also did not mention what OS. The options for windows are very different from what you can get for Mac / Linux. Many of the Linux options are able available for Mac and Mac has some options of it's own which are Mac only.

Without even the most basic info about your setup and what you are trying to backup it is hard to give anything beyond generic suggestions.

I think similar scenarios probably happen often with other backup software. If an author spends too much time on a project, then the project needs to make money for the author. The most common options, which this particular author tried, are to find a job that allows the author to work on the software or to get donations / sponsorship.

I have nothing but respect for an author that makes this hard choice instead of letting the software they have poured their heart and soul die a slow death.

Highly likely it is a list of folders to ignore. The alternative is much worse. If they are looking at user data to analyze patterns and type of data to decide folders to ignore.

I am a fan of backblaze, mostly their B2 storage, but this move is a bit disturbing.

roughly six months ago, Backblaze enacted a silent change that made its backup app stop uploading local data synced to "OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iDrive, and others."

How does it know? I assume the shittiest way, by just having a deny list of path prefixes.

I used to use Dropbox for cloud backup of important files, but I haven’t in years. However, I still have the Dropbox folder and I still have important files and receipts in there, more current than the last sync to Dropbox which was many many years ago.

This is quite concerning to say the least.

The disk will remain readable more if the damage is a line from middle to edge than if it’s a ring around the whole disk.

Probably covering area close to inner circle will make entire disc unreadable.

Optical discs include quite a bit of redundancy, so even if some data is unreadable, it can be found in the readable parts.

I wonder how much tape you need to unbalance the disk until it's completely unreadable?

I've used Duplicity in the past for my desktop but for my servers I hadn’t tried anything else before.

Thanks for the reply. Did you try any other backups before Borgmatic?

Mainly that the configuration is (mostly) in a single well-commented file, and good online docs. I don’t have much experience with backup systems and it looked like Borgmatic made it easy and had some useful features like the healthchecks integration (I already use healthchecks elsewhere). And since Borg dedupes backups, I can run it on a pretty aggressive schedule while keeping my BorgBase bill pretty affordable.

Thanks for the links. In particular Borgbase looks very interesting and they support restic too. Healthchecks.io also looks interesting; thanks.

What did you find in Borgmatic over others that made you chose it?

I use Borgmatic uploading backups to BorgBase and an external drive, and I monitor them using Borgmatic’s hooks for healthchecks.io. Everything was very easy to set up.

You might want to ask the selfhosted Lemmy community https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted