by trvz 3 days ago
Meanwhile, Backblaze still happily backups up the 100TB+ I have on various hard drives with my Mac Pro.
Does it? How do you know?
If they start excluding random content (eg: .git) without effective notice, maybe they AREN'T backing up everything you think they are.
You don’t do quarterly restore tests?
How do you do that?
My naive idea: Download 100 TB every 3 month to a 2nd device, create a list of files restored, validate checksums with the original machine, make a list of files differing and missing, check which ones are supposed to be missing? That sounds like a full time job.
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