Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups
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The difference between a sync and a backup is illustrated quite adeptly.
  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Local tape. If you need offsite, rotate tapes. If you need cloud, Amazon Glacier or equivalent (which are backed by tape, I assume).

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Tape drives are expensive as fuck though.

      Before the storage wars it was cheaper to just build a second shitty NAS and backup there