Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0

Post by beagle3 » Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 8:22 PM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #202

therobot24 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it takes months to get everything backed up, and now the just the file lists or whatever is taking up 8GB+ on my disk (i use a smaller SSD as the primary drive so space is precious). I contacted support and their only solution is to create a new account and go through many more months of backing everything up again.

> it takes months to get everything backed up What kind of internet connection are you on? I recently reinstalled my mac from scratch (El Capitan upgrade went haywire) and had to redo my backblaze backup. I uploaded the 500 GB to Backblaze in under 24 hours.

That means that you consistently had ~6MB/sec, or 50Mb/sec of upload bandwidth. That might be possible if you're on a really good 100Mb connection (or 1Gb connection), but that's not common in most of the world yet.

Also, could it be that the "re-upload" was able to detect your older copy of the files and reuse them? I can rsync terabytes in minutes over slow connections when the other side already has the files ...

Post by bwilliams18 » Sun, Nov 15, 2015, 8:59 PM UTC

budmang wrote: post #100

howeyc wrote: post #95

Interesting, with this information and some idea of what they pay for electricity +support staff/drive replacements/maintenance you could probably figure out their break-even mark. Their cost for the pod (which they say includes labor) comes out to 0.044/GB. The cost of redundancy is 3/20 drives, which would place the cost to 0.0517/GB of data. They are planning to charge 0.005/GB on the B2 service this is made for.…

Excellent analysis. There are some other costs involved (bandwidth, switches/cabinets, non-pod servers, etc.), but pods & drives dominate the costs, so your math is good. You're also right that 1 TB is the approximate breakeven between Backblaze per-GB cloud storage & unlimited online backup by cost and most people are below that. However, the main reason for people to use the backup service is that we take care of a…

Any chance you're thinking about a B2 based backup client for Synology or the like? I'm eager to backup those sorts of things to backblaze without going through the ISCUSI route Marco is taking.

Re: Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0

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