Ideally, they would be able to detect that a file is offline vs online and then give it special handling. And also trying to get them to acknowledge that having files in the backup which appear to be full size and valid but that in reality are corrupt is not a great situation. I've been in contact with BackBlaze but so far still at the stage of helping them realize there is not just a single folder I can tell it to ignore. So for instance in any given folder some might be online and others might be offline, and in your backups you would have no way of knowing which are there and which are not.

Dropbox also has a setting to keep files online or offline depending on how recently you edited it.

This is a bad situation because I don't simply have a SmartSync folder that I can ignore, but I selectively keep certain files offline and others online based on my needs. I've tested this on a variety of about 5 different files. I'm having a more severe case of this problem.īackblaze seems to THINK it backed up my SmartSync files, but when I try to restore them from Backblaze those files are corrupt.

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