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The ones provided in the „My Account“ page are an absolute nightmare.
Look at services like Stripe or Digitalocean and make them downloadable as PDF. Best case: send them out via email or auto-upload to specific Dropbox folder.
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Second on the linux client. I have a linux machine with a zfs volume that I've been backing up to crashplan. Since they've announced they're dumping their consumer market I have no cost-effective place to go. Most likely, I'll be more picky about my backups and use S3 life-cycled to Glacier.
I would really like to use rsync.net for my "external third-party" backups specifically because of their "ZFS Platform" [0] but (from my off the top of my head calculations) their pricing seems to come out a little on the high side. With my luck, the first time I need to be able to quickly restore a full dataset or something, it will probably have been well worth it and I'll likely be kicking myself for not doing it.…
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It is worth considering that the use-case of Backblaze is different from the average end-user. No power on/off cycles, no physical impacts to worry about (even most desktops occasionally get bumped into), but non-stop operation and presumably near continuous read/write operations. You'll likely get different failure patterns as a result.
> but non-stop operation and presumably near continuous read/write operations. I thought it would be more like: continuous writes until full, and then likely a handful of reads for the rest of that drive's life.
I’ve been a customer for years and recently had a catastrophic failure of a computer and it’s direct attached backup drive. I have spent the last four days waiting for backblaze to create a restore a backup for a computer on and last I checked it was at 9%. I chatted with support and they said this is normal. That progress may jump to completed any time because the restore only tracks file count. I wish I could say I…
Brian from BackBlaze reached out and provided some feedback: I checked into it, and we think your restore is slow for several reasons: 1) Lots of tiny files (we are fixing this in a rewrite literally this week) 2) It landed on a slow restore server. (We are planning on decommissioning that server soon because it is 8 years old and slow.) We have the technology to move your restore to a faster restore server. However,…
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I took the GP's remark about how he "went with s3 as s3cmd had a path of least resistance to storing backups" to mean that he considered B2 but opted for S3 since the latter offers a backup utility, but the former supports neither a "native" (e.g., git or rsync over SSH) backup interface, nor does it have a Linux client—the approach for backup on B2 from desktop Linux is to roll your own backup solution or use somebo…
"For big backups, storage is (slightly less than) twice as expensive as S3, but unlike S3, there are no bandwidth costs." Just to clarify ... we (rsync.net) support "borg backup" now (with borg deployed on the server side ...) which is the "holy grail" of efficient, zero knowledge, remote backups: https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ ... and if you are willing to give up our ZFS snapshots on the account (…
I’ve been a customer for years and recently had a catastrophic failure of a computer and it’s direct attached backup drive. I have spent the last four days waiting for backblaze to create a restore a backup for a computer on and last I checked it was at 9%. I chatted with support and they said this is normal. That progress may jump to completed any time because the restore only tracks file count. I wish I could say I…