I recently decided to let Backblaze host my Offside Backups - suggestions for Keyboard Maestro Macros needed…

Questions & Suggestions
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Hello Folks :wave:

While I think the Subject says I t all - here a few more words …

I am totally new to this offside Backup thing - I mean it took me ten years being a Mac user from day to day on taking a decision doing this … :joy:

Being a KM user is great … a Macro here, three ones there … but how to start building macros for Managing Backblaze ?!

I have absolutely no clue how to start…

I am hoping for more Backblaze users out there which are managing their Offside Backups Workflow with Keyboard Maestro - to give me some input….

Thanks for every idea or suggestion …

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

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Are you asking about managing backups to a b2 bucket? If so, there is a b2 CLI with good documentation, but I would look at software with b2 integration before I would attempt to script something from scratch with the CLI. Chronosync is one that I like.

If you are just using the backblaze computer backup, I don't think there is really a need for any type of macros, the backblaze backup client does pretty much everything you would want for a simple backup tool.

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Hello Evan (@Evan_Mangiamele):wave:

First of all thanks for diving in here …

While I am at the moment just using the normal Computer Backup there are some things I want to be able to control … things that I am not able to with the Backblaze App.

I am pretty sure that here are some things I could use Keyboard Maestro for and have more flexibility ….

One thing is for example that I don’t always have all my drives connected to backup all the data I have on them …. Another thing is the pause which is restricted to max two hours before the backup resumes …. Maybe I want it to pause a little longer or just do the backup of the drives that are connected at this time the backup is resuming …

These are just a few things to mention …

Thanks for reminding me on Chronosync … a great tool I’ve used in the past for syncing stuff …

Will probably bring this back into my workflow …

Greetings from Germany

Tobias

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Gotcha. You could look into using the "mounted drive" trigger to start the backblaze service.