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Such a great service and I still always look forward to the emails, stuff like the drive failure rates is always a neat read!
Yev, can you clarify whether this new release supports NAS? I see that it allows you to "Back up all your attached external drives", but my drives happen to be connected via Ethernet.
Yev, can you clarify whether this new release supports NAS? I see that it allows you to "Back up all your attached external drives", but my drives happen to be connected via Ethernet.
Probably not. They’ve said repeatedly that unlimited storage for $5 wouldn’t be a sustainable business model if they supported NAS. For that there are third party solutions that support backing up to B2.
Do they still have a very slow upload performance with their backup service? That's been the main complaint I've been reading over the years. (I'd probably be happy with something in the range of 50-100 Mbit/s.) (My home connection is 250/100.)
i've been a customer of backblaze for a about a decade now. everyone has their opinion, but for me, it's always just hummed along in the background, doing it's thing. i've had to restore almost a terabyte of data (on more than one occasion, derp) -- and had no issues. it's up there (again, for me) as one of the annual software subscriptions that's worth every penny, if not more.
I have a pretty thorough and redundant on-site backup system these days. But I still really appreciate having a totally independent off-site backup system. Nothing makes you suddenly wonder if your backup system is really all in order as when you lose your primary disk.
It's definitely a subscription that a lot of people should have if they don't.
Do they still have a very slow upload performance with their backup service? That's been the main complaint I've been reading over the years. (I'd probably be happy with something in the range of 50-100 Mbit/s.) (My home connection is 250/100.)
Do they still have a very slow upload performance with their backup service? That's been the main complaint I've been reading over the years. (I'd probably be happy with something in the range of 50-100 Mbit/s.) (My home connection is 250/100.)
Even before this new 7.0 version, I was able to get ~90Mbit/s, but had to use multiple threads; it was roughly 3Mbit/s per thread; I set it to 30 threads, got ~90Mbit/s total throughput. This was in August; should test it again with this new 7.0 version when I have another big batch of uploads.
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Probably not. They’ve said repeatedly that unlimited storage for $5 wouldn’t be a sustainable business model if they supported NAS. For that there are third party solutions that support backing up to B2.
Thank you, I know the history and what they've said in the past, and also know about their B2 product. I'm hoping for a real answer from Yev, but if not I've been reasonably happy with CrashPlan (which is a NAS-friendly solution).
Crashplan doesn’t support backing up NAS on Windows but does for Windows and Linux. Interesting....
That being said, I think if I had a NAS, I would want a solution that runs directly on the NAS instead of depending on a host computer.
Cool changes! Any plans to ever add Linux support? That’s a dealbreaker for me. I need to backup both Linux and Windows machines. I wanted to use B2, but restic seems not ideal on Windows.
Yev, can you clarify whether this new release supports NAS? I see that it allows you to "Back up all your attached external drives", but my drives happen to be connected via Ethernet.