Hi, I’m hoping folks have some advice: I’ve used Scrivener for a book project the last 2 years. Backblaze has been one of my backups. It’s been working well.
Something has changed, however. I don’t know if this matters, but here’s when it started: After a Macbook operating system update a week ago (change to Sonoma), I got an error message from BB. The company, and also a web search, informed me this was because Apple sometimes changes Time Machine’s settings after an update, and that the Mac’s hard drive becomes the selected drive. So I de-selected that, as instructed. After that, BB would back up again. And it did.
However, now when I go to the BB web site, though I see my Scrivener stuff (lives files and alos the backup)–there aren’t any .zip files of the work. There used to be .zip files of my work, which was the correct way for them to appear, there.
I just tried a test. And the test didn’t work.
I am not good at computers. So I’m really at a loss as to what has changed.
Thank you for any advice!
However, now when I go to the BB web site, though I see my Scrivener stuff (lives files and alos the backup)–there aren’t any .zip files of the work.
It might help to know a little bit about what you are referring to as .zip files of your work, which seems to be something distinctly separate from both active projects and your Scrivener backups. I would think in most cases, those two things are the beginning and the end of everything you would want in a full disk or user folder backup. So I’m not sure what this other .zip file is, or how it was arrived at.
Backblaze only backs up selected folders and some portions of USB drives. I don’t think it backs up TimeMachine’s files on USB drives, nor is Backblaze related at all to TimeMachine. That being said, it’s good to use both TimeMachine and Backup as part of your automated backup regime.
If you put your Scrivener zip backups files, the ones automatically created by Scrivener, into a folder that BackBlaze can backup, it should work. Perhaps you have located those zip backups to some other location not backed up by Backblaze.
Review he Backblaze documentation, and check where you store Scrivener automatic backups and the projec files to ensure they are in locations Backblaze can backup.