• Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    What is an “AI storage service”?

    Does that mean you just store your info in AI weights/contexts and hope it can regenerate an approximation of what you put in?

  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1 hour

    I got sick of paying for backblaze. Duplicati is a good free solution. You just need cloud storage to use it, which you might already be paying for in other services.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 hours

      I use borgbase. It’s not the same, but it’s cheap and not stored in the US.

      I just set up a launchd task on my Mac to run my Borg jobs and I never have to think about it. You could do the same with systemd on linux. If you’re on Windows why are you still on Windows?

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    4 hours

    That’s not surprising with all of the data hoarders abusing the unlimited backups to store hundreds of terabytes.

    • ruuster13@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 hours

      How is that abuse? “Unlimited” is a pretty audacious plan to offer. Maybe Backblaze shouldn’t offer something impossible.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2 hours

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

        • ruuster13@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1 hour

          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.

    • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      44 minutes

      I’m asking as a genuine question, where or how should people backup large datastores? Also what counts as too large? I’ve heard Backblaze doesn’t cover NAS so i wouldn’t be able to backup my 2TB zfs RAID, but like is that too much?

      I want to do 3-2-1 for my homelab to preserve all pictures in my immich and the backups of my LXCs and VMs, but I’m just not sure how to go about it, and I was considering archives of those files + backblaze…

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 hours

      Yeah, screw those people. I can’t think of a single other reason a profit driven company would cut corners while storage prices rise due to AI companies.

    • Goferking0@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      3 hours

      Hard to say thats it if just having 2TB uploaded is enough to be considered in the top.

      Especially if they’ve already started ignoring other cloud files in people’s backups

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4 hours

      Yeah, a few hundred outliers can really ruin it. People: have some self awareness and don’t be a douchebag.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47 minutes

        You’re talking to the crowd where if it can be done, it should be done, and bragged about. Sadly.