Backblaze B2
Affordable cloud object storage
Episodes
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#4704: Building a Unified AI Filesystem with Rclone and MinIOHow to build a single virtual filesystem for AI agents across multiple cloud storage providers — without the token headaches. -
#4453: Workers vs Workflows: Recovering From SSD FailureWhen your VPS SSD dies at 3AM, how do you know what broke? A practical guide to self-hosted worker management. -
#4399: How a Bank Card Nearly Killed 5,000 EpisodesA textbook backup setup quietly degraded to a single copy. Here’s how—and how to prevent it. -
#4391: Why Your AI Chat History Has No Real BackupYour ChatGPT conversations are your external brain—and you can lose them with a single expired credit card. -
#4080: How Resumable Uploads Actually WorkWhat happens when your file transfer fails at 92% — and the app just picks up where it left off. -
#4073: Private Buckets, Pre-Signed URLs: Self-Hosting Without the CompromiseHow to keep your self-hosted images secure, accessible, and cloud-friendly without becoming the product. -
#3399: Why Mail a Disc to Your In-Law?Cloud backups are durable. Physical backups give you sovereignty. Here’s why both matter — and how M-Disc fits in. -
#3217: When a Truck Beats the Internet: Shipping Data at ScaleWhy FedEx sometimes beats fiber for moving massive datasets across the country. -
#3033: 3,000 Episodes, 3 Copies: Is This Backup Setup Enough?Three copies, two clouds, one NAS. But is this setup truly protecting 3,000 podcast episodes? -
#3024: How to Incrementally Back Up Google Photos to Your NASBuild a quarterly backup pipeline for Google Photos using the Library API, hash deduplication, and your NAS. -
#2961: Podcast Analytics Without Selling Your SoulThree paths to listener data that respect privacy and actually work with object storage. -
#2694: When AI Agents Write Your Backup ScriptsBorg, Restic, and Kopia compared for whole-server incremental backups on Ubuntu Docker hosts. -
#2571: How S3 Billing Actually Works (And Why R2 Is Different)Storage is the decoy cost. The real surprises come from request charges, egress fees, and early deletion penalties. -
#2438: The Folder Illusion: How Object Storage Fakes HierarchyBlobs, flat namespaces, and why those "folders" in cloud storage are complete illusions. -
#1989: Your Cloud Photos Vanish If You Miss a $5 BillIs your data safe in the cloud, or is it one missed payment away from oblivion? -
#770: The Ghost in the Machine: How Rclone Mounts the CloudEver wonder why cloud mounts stutter? We explore the engineering of Rclone, FUSE, and the quest for infinite, fluid remote storage. -
#742: The Dark Archive: Saving Extremism for HistoryWhen mainstream sites delete toxic content, how do researchers save it? Explore the "memory hole" of digital hate speech and dark archives. -
#410: Redundancy Is Not a BackupWhen a 7-year-old server dies, the recovery is a wake-up call. Discover why RAID isn't a backup and how to build a resilient "Server V2."