But at least you can restore your files quickly through it's gui and see long file names and folders. People talk about Crashplan's software being bad. Then select all the files and move them to trash.īackblaze is practically useless as a backup service because restoring your data is almost impossible.
So on the Mac use the finder's 'Go to folder.' menu item and type in '/Volumes/ExternalDriveName/.bzvol' and click Go. bzvol folder that has already been cloned. bvol on SuperDuper, Carbon Copy Cloner and Drobo Copy. Edit your cloning software (SuperDuper, Carbon Copy) to exclude the.RECOMENDED SOLUTION: two hard drives should never have the same bzvolumeid. This confuses Backblaze, because now the two different hard drives have the same id. If you clone a drive that is selected for backup by Backblaze, it will clone the '.bzvol' directory.
Backblaze for mac not backing up update#
If your external drive was not connected to your computer at the time of the update to the latest version of Backblaze, then Backblaze could not create the hidden '.bzvol' directory, and therefore had to remove this hard drive from the backup. Why was my external drive removed from the backup? Text input which appears after you press Command + Shift + G. If you have an external drive use the following text (ignore theįor example, if you had an external drive named 'Media' you would type The folder should be available for copying and modification Copy and paste the following text (ignore the quotes): '/.bzvol'Ĥ. Inside this hidden directory is a tiny file that identifies this hard drive for the rest of time. As part of new and better support for external drives, Backblaze now creates a '.bzvol' directory at the top level of every drive it backs up.
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