Post #2756389
2026-05-22 07:07 UTC
#Backup success story: Retrieved a photo from over 5 years ago from remote backup using #rclone , so old it's not only long gone from my phone but from my local hard drive. The external drive I backed it up to failed to survive a fall of approximately 5 cm (about 2 inches, for USians) and will cost me about as much as the disk itself to recover the files 😒 The remote #BackBlaze / #b2 backup using rclone, however, is chugging along just fine and has not only been backing up the files for years now but retrieves them without issue.
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@ljwrites@writeout.ink 2026-05-22 07:20
I wouldn't use the official b2 client for backup, retrieval, and other jobs on b2, though, since the client lacks some essential functions like wildcards. Rclone is really good for these purposes after setting up a b2 profile, and that's what my daily backups run on. In fact I saw a BackBlaze employee replying to a Reddit post recommending rclone for backup management 💀