I noticed this (thankfully before it was critical) and I’ve decided to move on from BB. Easily over 10 year customer. Totally bogus. Not only did it stop backing it up the old history is totally gone as well.

The one thing they have to do is backup everything and when you see it in their console you can rest assured they are going to continue to back it up.

They’ve let the desktop client linger, it’s difficult to add meaningful exceptions. It’s obvious they want everyone to use B2 now.

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jgrizou 7 hours ago | parent [-]

What are you using now? Asking for a friend

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mrighele 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not OP, but I have been using borg backup [1] against Hetzner Storage Box [2]

Borg backup is a good tool in my opinion and has everything that I need (deduplication, compression, mountable snapshot.

Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives (I pay about 10 eur/month for 5TB of storage)

Before that I was using s3cmd [3] to backup on a S3 bucket.

[1] https://www.borgbackup.org/

[2] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

[3] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

	▲	mrighele 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I cannot edit any longer, the second link was supposed to be [2] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

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GCUMstlyHarmls 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use rsync.net. You can use basically any SSH tool or rclone interface. They have a cheaper plan for "experts" if you want to forgo zfs snapshots,https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts.

	▲	tbagman an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just a note of caution: sync != backup. When I was younger and dumber, I had my own rsync cron script to do a nightly sync of my documents to a remote server. One day I noticed files were gone from my local drive; I think there were block corruptions on the disk itself, and the files were dropped from the filesystem, or something like that. The nightly rsync propagated the deletions to the remote "backup." D'argh.
	▲	6ak74rfy 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Rsync.net is really really good. Just this weekend, my backup tool went rogue and exhausted quota on rsync.net (Some bad config by me on Borg.) Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation. Plus, their product has been rock solid since a few years I've been using them.
	▲	rsync an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Thanks for your kind words. Just to clarify - there are discounted plans that don't have free ZFS snapshots but you can still have them ... they just count towards your quota. If your files don't change much - you don't have much "churn" - they might not take up any real space anyway.
	▲	ramses0 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		rsync.net and rclone are great, my brain understood restic easier than borg for local backups over usb (ymmv), and plain old `rsync --archive` is most excellent wrt preserving file mod times and the like. There is 100% a difference between "dead data" (eg: movie.mp4) and "live data" (eg: a git directory with `chmod` attributes)- S3 and similar often don't preserve "attributes and metadata" without a special secondary pass, even though the `md5` might be the same.

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microtonal 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have used Arq for way over a decade. It does incremental encrypted backups and supports a lot of storage providers. Also supports S3 object lock (to protect against ransomware). It’s awesome!

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massysett 6 hours ago | parent [-]

How is the performance? For me it takes Arq over an hour just to scan my files for changes.

	▲	sreitshamer 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		(Arq developer here) By default Arq tries to be unobtrusive. Edit your backup plan and slide the “CPU usage” slider all the way to the right to make it go faster.

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e40 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wasabi + rclone works well for me. Previous BB customer.