Subscription Changes for Computer Backup

Post by stavros » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #11

karmakaze wrote: post #2

Does anyone have experience using this to sync between a Windows PC and a Mac? I've tried using OneDrive and it's pretty bad. I basically keep it disabled until I remember, "hey I haven't synced in a while, turn it on until complete, then turn off again."

I've used Syncthing to sync between Mac, Linux and Android. They have a Windows client. It's not the most intuitive software to set up, especially on mobile where there are confusing filesystem restrictions from the OS, but once set up seems to work nicely. I don't use the versioning / read-only features, so I don't know how well it performs for sort-of-backup purposes.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

varikin wrote: post #39

fallat wrote: post #33

Hey, I hope there is a BackBlaze person lurking the comments. I use BackBlaze to make sporadic, one time backups. I then disconnect everything - which is just 2 mirrored drives. These drives only contain important documents. Can BackBlaze please not delete my backups if my drives are not connected for X days, even though I pay for the backups? It is very confusing to me, and actually pretty damn frustrating. To be mo…

I'm an engineer at Backblaze. We do have extended version history that you can enable to have the files held for a longer time. https://www.backblaze.com/version-history.html

Post by nicolas_t » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:48 PM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #17

eyeball wrote: post #8

Since this thread might attract people who know … I’m looking at getting a NAS for home backup to get my data out of cloud services. Is synology still a good option for this? I’ve read that they are starting to engage in some anti-user behaviors like restricting the types of drives that can be used with their gear.

You still should backup your NAS to the cloud per the 3-2-1 backups strategy (3 copies of data, 2 types of storage, 1 offsite copy). Synology has an app that can do that for you. If you're stashing away a lot of data on your NAS the cloud storage fees won't be too much cheaper than BackBlaze.

Post by fletchowns » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #31

I had backblaze on a laptop that was stolen. The thief uploaded all of their criminal activities to my backblaze account. I was able to inform five federal agencies on their wrongdoings as a result. Thanks Backblaze for adding the forever hold feature! You helped prevent more victims of a very bad human.

Post by motoboi » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

cdumler wrote: post #42

agustif wrote: post #32

I used Backblaze B2 for a project as the store of the files. I had to switch to elsewhere once hitting production, when doing thousands of async upload requests, some would randomly 403 on me. Their customers rep solution was to handle it on my side (yeah, I know) but it was easier for me to just switch providers. I guess for other products Backblaze is good, but I wouldn't recommend their Backblaze B2 to other fello…

B2 was designed for backup storage, not being a fake hard drive. Even if it was, you would have a far better solution for dealing with latency and your data being in the clear if you would use `rclone`. Add the B2 storage backend, then a local cache to B2, then encryption to cache. You then get local performance from the cache, unlimited space from B2, and it becomes eventually consistent in the background.