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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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DB = Dropbox, OD = Onedrive

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[–] 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The software only allows local drives to be backed up, but some people use workarounds to make it backup a large NAS or server.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    But that's not who is being targeted with the changes Backblaze has made. By silently excluding sync folders, they're casting a wide net and hoping it will catch those who use workarounds. It might, but in the process it reveals their comfort with deceptive business practices and harms users of the backup service who are not using workarounds.

    Are they boosting their AI business in anticipation of breaking encryption and then training their models on everyone's data? That's what I would assume of a company I no longer trust.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    About two weeks ago, Backblaze sent out an email

    Headlines are clickbait. Literally the first line in the article. What more can they do than send an email?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The title is accurate.

    You just failed to read the article part the first ten words.

    However, 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."

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    And I recall Backblaze stating that those users are a minority and aren't a big concern. I used to do that, but when I attempted to restore 7TB and it took well over a month to restore what I needed, I switched to other solutions.

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