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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Is there any backup software which continuously uploads your files to an AWS/GCP/Azure long term storage account that you control and pay for? Something like CrashPlan, which from time to time performs automatic maintenance and deletes old versions of files.

Backblaze software is pretty reasonable. But I have a linux machine, so restic and their B2 storage is a buck or two a month to backup a few computers in my house. (around 185GB of photos, etc)

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Is there any backup software which continuously uploads your files to an AWS/GCP/Azure long term storage account that you control and pay for? Something like CrashPlan, which from time to time performs automatic maintenance and deletes old versions of files.

I'm using rclone to sync with Backblaze nightly, executed directly from a cronjob.

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Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Surprised by the number of drives with 0 failures, though it seems not all of the drives were run for the required time to qualify for the rating. > In Q3, six different drive models managed to have zero drive failures during the quarter. But only the 6TB Seagate, noted above, had over 50,000 drive days, our minimum standard for ensuring we have enough data to make the AFR plausible.

I have always wondered why they don't use techniques from survival analysis to be able to draw conclusions even from sets with lower failure rates. Or for that matter to avoid slight bias even for drives they do report.

Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Is there any backup software which continuously uploads your files to an AWS/GCP/Azure long term storage account that you control and pay for? Something like CrashPlan, which from time to time performs automatic maintenance and deletes old versions of files.

Tons of choices: Restic, Borg, Duplicity, Kopia Though Backblaze is pretty good at what it does and you can set your own encryption key, if that's the concern.

Unfortunately Backblaze requires[1] you to provide them this private key to restore.

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038171794-Wh...

Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tons of choices: Restic, Borg, Duplicity, Kopia Though Backblaze is pretty good at what it does and you can set your own encryption key, if that's the concern.

Unfortunately Backblaze requires[1] you to provide them this private key to restore. [1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038171794-Wh...

What does restore mean this context? I’ve downloaded files from their online portal without providing a key. Perhaps restoring in this context means having them mail you a hard drive.

Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Is there any backup software which continuously uploads your files to an AWS/GCP/Azure long term storage account that you control and pay for? Something like CrashPlan, which from time to time performs automatic maintenance and deletes old versions of files.

I'm using rclone to sync with Backblaze nightly, executed directly from a cronjob.

Same. Rclone is wonderful because it supports a ton of different backends which makes it super easy to mirror. It's also got some great features like crypt where you can encrypt everything locally, thus sending the data all as ciphertext.

Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023

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Is there any backup software which continuously uploads your files to an AWS/GCP/Azure long term storage account that you control and pay for? Something like CrashPlan, which from time to time performs automatic maintenance and deletes old versions of files.

Perhaps this can help https://rclone.org/
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