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Ask HN: How to reorganize an S3-backed up library

1 points by colecut ↗ HN
I have all of my pictures and videos in Backblaze S3, and local. The only organization currently is by year.

I would like to make subfolders to group pictures/videos by event as well.

Is there a way I can do this locally, and have the remote archive organization updated as well, without retransfering all of the files?

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ac2u
The backblaze backup software supposedly has dedupe detection which should help with renaming.

However you mentioned you're using Backblaze S3. I assume you mean you're using their S3-compatible B2 service, and you didn't really say if the software you're using to sync local to B2 is the backblaze software or something else, so it makes it a little difficult to help you.

If the object synced to B2 are keyed in a way that resembles folders, then like S3, to restructure you have to copy the file with a new name with the new folder structure you want.

You can avoid having to do this without retransferring from your machine by using API calls against B2.

colecut
Yes, I meant the B2 service.

I haven't set up a proper syncing tool yet, I used cyberduck to just drag and drop the folders from local to remote.

I will look into the backblaze software.

Thanks for the response