I'm a Backblaze user, became one right after another post from their blog hit HN front page about 8 months ago. Backblaze almost saved me once when my external HDD died due to dropping—the reason it didn't actually save me is because initial backup wasn't yet completed (not their fault). Otherwise I could easily order from them a new HDD with restored data, which is a very nice feature.
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…)
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.
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
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.
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I'm a Backblaze user, became one right after another post from their blog hit HN front page about 8 months ago. Backblaze almost saved me once when my external HDD died due to dropping—the reason it didn't actually save me is because initial backup wasn't yet completed (not their fault). Otherwise I could easily order from them a new HDD with restored data, which is a very nice feature.
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…)
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.
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
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.