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.
  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    About two weeks ago, Backblaze sent out an email

    Headlines are clickbait. Literally the first line in the article. What more can they do than send an email?

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      The title is accurate.

      You just failed to read the article part the first ten words.

      However, roughly six months ago, Backblaze enacted a silent change that made its backup app stop uploading local data synced to “OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iDrive, and others.”