What's the point of backing up a bluray rip? Either you have the source material, in which case its almost always going to be faster to rerip than restore from backup, or you downloaded it once already (for, ahem, free) so why not download it again and not pay the cost of storing that data?
Also, I would hope no one doing mastering is uploading their raws, in real time, to a service like backblaze. On-site thunderbolt / NAS solutions are almost exclusively used in RAW backups in studios. With offsite copies stored at regular intervals via good old sneaker-net.
I just needed to think of something big. Anyway there is big stuff that is not that important - lets say couple of gigabytes of logs but nice to have.
BB folder and file type structure makes it relatively hard to back up just some files of given type. And some stuff like tars and zips could be arbitrary in size and importance.
We definitely focus on ease-of-backup vs. choices-for-backup. One of the initial things we found we the "pick and choose files & folders to backup" approach is what kept most people from setting up a backup at all because they were confused by the process.
Having said that, we offer the ability to exclude folders and filetypes if you have certain things you want to backup later.
(Not disagreeing with anything you're saying...just fyi.)
I know from a product design and engineering standpoint why you have made the service that way. Every user have unique best backup strategy- it is a nightmare to accommodate all. Just proving the simple second best strategy to all is a good decision. And as I said I know what have I purchased and I am fine with the service. I stopped juggling directories and file types after couple of reinstalls though - those settings are not transferred on backup transfer and setting them all again is too much PITA.
Backups transfers are also a minor pain point - the error horse (on freshly installed BB on windows) and when, how and why it disappears and allows you to do the backup is still a mystery.
I guess that the BB cloud storage will solve some of the customization problems though - if you are power enough user you could write a custom strategy on top of the API.
> Either you have the source material, in which case its almost always going to be faster to rerip than restore from backup
Sure, it will be faster, because it will be a local operation, because you probably keep the original near the same place you keep the main rip. That also means that the original source and the in-use rip are vulnerable to being destroyed together in a site-affecting event (fire, flood, robbery, etc.), which makes having a remote backup valuable.
Also, I would hope no one doing mastering is uploading their raws, in real time, to a service like backblaze. On-site thunderbolt / NAS solutions are almost exclusively used in RAW backups in studios. With offsite copies stored at regular intervals via good old sneaker-net.