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Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by numbsafari » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

I would absolutely love to replace my use of S3 with B2 as a backup for data stored elsewhere. Personally, I would much rather this storage to to a service that only does storage, rather than everything else that AWS does, so I don't have to worry about anything strange happening in a cloud service I don't use every day.

When they first launched B2, I inquired about ability to enter into a BAA (Business Associates Agreement) for HIPAA compliance and was told that it wasn't "on the roadmap". It sounds like B2 has come a long way on the compliance side. Would be great if they were open to this.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by tams » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:01 PM UTC

dopamean wrote: post #5

I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?

There are lots of tools you can use to back up to Backblaze, including their comsumer backup service.

If you want to sync to B2 specifically with a lightweight tool, check out https://rclone.org/

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by tambre » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

nielsole wrote: post #3

Here is the reasoning why they didn't have "s3 compatibility" before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...

>It requires Amazon to have a massive and expensive choke point in their network: load balancers. When a customer tries to upload to S3, she is given a single upload URL to use. For instance, s3.amazonaws.com/.

Now that Amazon has deprecated the single URL version and replaced it with region-specific URLs (e.g. s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) and tooling has been mostly updated, this huge reason for not supporting the S3 API is gone.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by atYevP » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

WalterBAmaQ wrote: post #6

Great. How about rsync.net-compatible (i.e. bog-standard, vendor-neutral) "APIs"?

Yev here -> Anyone can write to the B2 Native API or our S3 Compatible API, we have tons of integrations that do it, here's a list -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by StavrosK » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

dopamean wrote: post #5

I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?

restic (if you need deduplication, snapshots, encryption, etc, which it doesn't sound like you do), or rclone, to BackBlaze or rsync.net. I use the latter and am very happy, I've never used the former.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by geniium » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

dopamean wrote: post #5

I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?

I have been using backblaze to backup our Synology NAS with lot's of personal data, mainly photos and videos.

Have been restoring ponctual data easily. Did not do any major restore yet (hopefully).

I found them really good and cheap. I can only recommend.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

yamrzou wrote: post #8

nielsole wrote: post #3

Here is the reasoning why they didn't have "s3 compatibility" before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...

So how did they manage to get rid of those hidden costs? Or is the new S3 compatible API more expensive?

It's possible they're eating the cost of the load balancing necessary to multiplex from their backends to client requests, which should theoretically stoke an increase in business due to reduced switching costs (and what timing, with an economic contraction likely pushing cost reductions at those needing cloud storage).

Disclaimer: Happy Backblaze Mac client and B2 customer, no other affiliation.

EDIT: @yev: I took the signal out after the sibling reply :) Appreciate the responses as always. Please stay awesome.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by geniium » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

mgamache wrote: post #4

S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.

That's a good question to ask. S3 has become so common that it's going toward that road.

It's like brand names that become so common that people use no more the material name, but the brand.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by atYevP » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

numbsafari wrote: post #11

I would absolutely love to replace my use of S3 with B2 as a backup for data stored elsewhere. Personally, I would much rather this storage to to a service that only does storage, rather than everything else that AWS does, so I don't have to worry about anything strange happening in a cloud service I don't use every day. When they first launched B2, I inquired about ability to enter into a BAA (Business Associates Ag…

Yev here -> Double good news for you this morning: we're now signing BAAs for B2 Cloud Storage ;-) Just contact sales and they can get you sorted out!

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by simplyinfinity » Mon, May 04, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #9

Actually excited by this. I was benchmarking S3 vs B2 vs others 2 years ago and I had to give up on B2 because its implementation for performance was so much more difficult. (88 lines vs 36 lines for all others in Ruby)

So how many times a month do you have to implement this to be reasonable compared to the cost of the storage?