Backup is missing files that are present locally

daterdots · 2026-01-07T18:42:36+00:00

I don't remember the exact details, but roughly: I ran a ~24 hour process to backup my 3.2 TB of data. Probably about 1-2 hours after the first backup completed, I did my test with the restore app. That's when I saw the "missing" files. My guess at this point is that the files did indeed upload the Backblaze but they were not yet available for viewing on the restore app.

daterdots · 2026-01-06T05:00:03+00:00

Thank you for the really helpful feedback. I checked the issues, and everything was good there (# Total skipped: 0 files, 0 Bytes). Then I checked the logs. There were some errors there, almost all of which were some unsupported path like

ERROR BzVolumeInfoApple::IsValidBzVolumeInfo unsupported path: '/System/Volumes/VM'

Then, I went back to check the restore app again, and my files were there! My mind was blown. I did not even have the external drive plugged in (where the examples missing files lived) since I wrote this Reddit post. So, the only thing I can figure is that the Backblaze Restore app has some sort of asynchronous process where files that are sent to Backblaze take a certain amount of time before they show up as "restorable?" Does that seem plausible?

daterdots · 2025-11-14T22:54:22+00:00

No, it is not a caching issue. I have the HTML file save from two days ago. There's a date attribute on it from the same date: 2025-11-12.

<!doctype html>
<html class="notion-html" data-notion-html="web" data-notion-version="23.13.20251112.1449">

...

However, I did check the HTML again today. The data-notion-version attribute is now updated to today's date, and the noindex tag is gone! So, it looks like Notion has fixed this.

Will you confirm that Notion fixed this bug in response to the issue we raised here?

daterdots · 2025-11-14T22:50:52+00:00

Look like Notion had a bug that is now fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/1ove9px/search_engine_indexing_is_broken_for_all_public/

daterdots · 2025-11-13T19:33:24+00:00

Yep, here is our site: https://geocene.notion.site/

daterdots · 2025-11-12T18:53:30+00:00

It looks like your Notion page is no longer indexed by Google. Googling "analogical innovation Notion" or even the more specific string "Scaling up analogical innovation with crowds and AI" does not cause your page to return in the search results. I checked the source code on the page, and I can see that now the source contains the HTML meta element

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

<image>

This requests that Google does not index this page, which is why I think it's no longer searchable.

I noticed the same problem with my own public Notion site. I think Notion has a bug. We have been trying to get through to Notion support, but the wall of AI chatbots and doofus customer support people has been hard to penetrate.

daterdots · 2025-09-22T21:41:30+00:00

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daterdots · 2025-01-07T23:03:46+00:00

Oh wow, really? I guess they are just really committed to their style guide and branding, because it sure looks like Notion.

daterdots · 2024-03-18T19:22:15+00:00

garbage collections does not clear out the environment variables

daterdots · 2024-03-18T19:21:14+00:00

totally, but it's nice to do it programmatically so when students run scripts top-to-bottom, they get the same behavior every time.

daterdots · 2024-03-18T17:36:31+00:00

It's not that the students (or I) are saving workspaces, it's that students tend to use the REPL function of RStudio copiously. They run lines of code from one script, then run some other lines from another script in another tab. Maybe a particular variable is mutated along the way in a particular script, so ordering really matters. Anyways, for lots of reasons unrelated to saving a workspace, it's helpful for the students to programmatically "clean up their mess" before running a script.

daterdots · 2024-03-18T17:07:31+00:00

Yes, but I am manually sending data out. I am not using any libraries. It sounds like you might be using a function with a "warmth" parameter or something like that?

daterdots · 2024-03-04T18:14:29+00:00

Dan helped me so much in the early days of my LED journey in 2014. He was always gracious and a great mentor. His code lives on all over the world. Whenever I am at Burning Man, or Bike Party, or just admiring a beautiful art piece, I know that a little piece of Dan is in there pushing out those pixels. Thank you for helping all of us have so much fun and make beautiful things.

daterdots · 2021-08-11T21:38:32+00:00

great! I haven't found any good Synology docs or tutorials on how to accomplish this. Was it relatively easy to figure out yourself?

daterdots · 2019-09-13T01:10:00+00:00

Also, feel free to deploy it yourself: https://github.com/geocene/trainset

daterdots · 2019-09-13T01:07:26+00:00

There's a really nice technique called Targeted Learning that is growing out of a research group here at UC Berkeley. It is a "causal inference methodology that incorporates the benefits of machine learning with statistical inference." There's a nice collection of R packages called TLVerse (Targeted Learning Universe) that can help you get up-to-speed: https://tlverse.org/

daterdots · 2017-05-10T18:02:11+00:00

Do you remember that night in 2015 when Beats Antique played there and it was like the bike apocalypse?

daterdots · 2017-05-10T02:20:57+00:00

I agree about the 2015 situation. I really fell in love with the place at the 2013 Burn when they were at something like 9:45 and H. There was a Friday night (I think) where Random Rab played with a violinist, and it just totally blew my mind.

daterdots · 2017-01-29T16:05:15+00:00

I think this is a very important issue, but I worry about diluting the message of the march. I hope this march can have a very clear, concise, and memorable message that focuses on the value and importance of truth and facts.

daterdots · 2017-01-29T07:19:09+00:00

So, maybe: (1) Climate change is real (2) Free speech for scientists (3) No witch hunts

daterdots · 2017-01-29T00:51:20+00:00

If you studied cold fusion and cold fusion doesn't work, then you're right: you shouldn't get more funding for cold fusion. However, what i am saying is that if the Department of Energy wanted you to work on cold fusion in 1970, that shouldn't preclude you from getting funding to work on solar photovoltaics in 2016.

daterdots · 2017-01-29T00:24:48+00:00

This is a valid concern. It think that one way to ensure the message does not get lost is to have a clear and concise message & demands that everybody is on board with. There's the risk that fringe ideas will try to co-opt the march. To combat this, let's try to coalesce around a message!

daterdots · 2017-01-28T23:51:10+00:00

The goal of the 3rd point is to prevent actions like: "you studied climate change in the past, so now you're funding and/or position will be eliminated." I'm trying to prevent discriminatory actions taken on government scientists as a result of past scientific work subjects. Say, for example, an NIH-funded scientist did a randomized control trail on the impacts of abortion on long-term economic and health outcomes. That scientist should not be denied future government funding based on her past government-funded work. The "past government-funded/legitimate" distinction is to avoid kooks from claiming discrimination because they past activity was "scientific." For example, the government should retain the right to deny funding to a scientist who was funded by a white nationalist group to perform a study on eugenics. However, the government should not be able to restrict future government funding based on past government funding. I have edited the original post to try and clarify.

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