I just looked in my Backblaze restore program, and all my .git folders are in there. I did have to go to the Settings menu and toggle an option to show hidden files. This is the Mac version.

ANY company, and I do mean any, that offers "unlimited" anything is 100% a scam. At best its a temporary growth hack to entice people who havent had technology rug-pulls. And when profits dwindle and the S curve is near the upper coast, you can guarantee that "unlimited" will get hidden restrictions, exclusions, "terms of service" changes, nebulous fair use policies that arent fair, and more dark patterns. And every one of them are "how do we worsen unlimited to make more money on captive customers?"

We're also seeing this play out in real time with Anthropic with their poop-splatter-llm. They've gone through like 4 rug-pulls, and people STILL pay $200/month for it. Every round, their unlimited gets worse and worse, like I outlined above.

Pay as you go is probably the more fair. But SaaS providers reallllllly hate in providing direct and easy to use tools to identify costs, or <gasp> limit the costs. A storag/backup provider could easily show this. LLM providers could show a near-realtime token utilization.

But no. Dark patterns, rug-pulls, and "i am altering the deal, pray i do not alter it further".

I was always roughly of the mind that Backblaze was just too close to the "If it's too good to be true it probably is", seems like that may have been a good decision.

They need to be reminded they are a utility. It's not up to them to have an opinion about my data. "Utilities" with an opinion carry a lot more liability.

TIL Backblaze doesn't back up the /Applications folder on Mac! Time to move everything to ~/Applications

However, OneDrive users (yes, that includes me) are still complaining that there’s no way to set up exclusions.

Why tho? Doesn't Backblaze sell cloud storage, and more files you backup the more profit they make? Or I misunderstand what it is?

Thank you. I will also immediately stop using backblaze. Its purpose is to independently back up my hard drive. Not to pick and choose.

Ouch. The only reason their “well figured out what to include and exclude” policy made sense was an implicit assumption that they’d play it safe

Just switched from Backblaze to Cloudflare R2 (using restic). Now it makes me think if I should check for such issues with R2 as well.