Updated object store comparison: http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/
your chart is missing https://nimbus.io/ which is .02 per GB/Mo.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
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Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!
Is there a possibility to request the backed up data in physical form. Let's say I backed up 8 TB of data for a small business, and I need to restore in 24 hrs, is it possible to request overnight shipments of hard drives of data so I can do the restore locally instead of taking weeks to download all that data I know amazon has this feature, not sure about google. Another question, what's the max number of buckets ca…
Love to see this as well. Part of the selling point of Backblaze as an online backup is the ability to get a FedEx'd hard drive.
I could see this being a practicality for small time video editors, I need to keep copies of old projects, but would be willing to pay $300 to get an overnight hard drive of the files since whatever new project will pay for that cost.
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#133For context, OVH offers object storage with 3x replication for $.01/GB [1]. [1] https://www.runabove.com/cloud-storage.xml
It is certainly interesting how OVH undercuts the competition by quite a large margin in everything. We use them for dedicated servers, but I wonder why they're not as well known as AWS...
Yeah, it is very interesting how everyone here loves AWS. And the reasons for it seem to be (1) the "trust" in AWS, (2) the existing knowledge about AWS's API etc. and (3) that it's just not worth the time to evaluate another provider because you could spend your time growing your startup/doing something more profitable.
And these are interestingly exactly the same reasons enterprises buy IBM and Oracle.
This is actually a big pet peeve of mine :)
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!
Is there a possibility to request the backed up data in physical form. Let's say I backed up 8 TB of data for a small business, and I need to restore in 24 hrs, is it possible to request overnight shipments of hard drives of data so I can do the restore locally instead of taking weeks to download all that data I know amazon has this feature, not sure about google. Another question, what's the max number of buckets ca…
Yes, this is very important for my BUDR plan as well.
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#135I couldn't tell from the docs, but is it possible (or will it be possible) to generate a single use download URL to return to clients? I wouldn't want to have to pay double for outbound traffic going from B2 -> my server -> client.
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#136In addition to the good point raised by @jcreedon regarding their single datacenter (which I think is a bit of a bigger deal than he does, primarily because I don't think it scales linearly per-GB for the first few datacenters, though it might thereafter), I'm more concerned about the bandwidth. There's no talk about their backbone or their network capacity. I get that they have terabytes of upload coming in, but as…
I think it's also important to point out this is cheaper then AWS Glacier. You could think of B2 as pure backup for now, and after tracking metrics expanded it out to more products. I doubt even Backblaze would suggest you make this your primary, mission-critical storage, hence the Beta title. But even so, there are plenty of non-main use cases. Especially at this price.
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!
Is there a possibility to request the backed up data in physical form. Let's say I backed up 8 TB of data for a small business, and I need to restore in 24 hrs, is it possible to request overnight shipments of hard drives of data so I can do the restore locally instead of taking weeks to download all that data I know amazon has this feature, not sure about google. Another question, what's the max number of buckets ca…
> Is there a possibility to request the backed up data in physical form.
Yes. In our traditional 8 year old product line of online backup, you can order a restore on an external USB hard drive for $189 (you keep the hard drive, and the cost includes world wide shipping). We FedEx the restore to you anywhere in the world. (We ship to Europe all the time, but add an EXTRA 24 hours for that to arrive.) Oh, if you only have 128 GBytes of data you can order a USB thumb drive of that FedEx'ed to you for only $99.
B2 absolutely supports this USB drive restore functionality. We call the feature "Snapshots" (you take a "Snapshot" of some of your data, then you can either download it as one large zip file or you can have it sent to you via USB Hard Drive).
Our online backup product tells you that the restore is up to 4 TBytes, but we have prepared Drobos as "special orders" for customers that were much larger than that. We aren't trying to make profit from that part of the business, just kind of break even on materials and shipping and create customer goodwill. You would be AMAZED how happy some customers are to receive 8 TBytes of Drobo with all their data they thought they might have lost. :-)
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#138I couldn't tell from the docs, but is it possible (or will it be possible) to generate a single use download URL to return to clients? I wouldn't want to have to pay double for outbound traffic going from B2 -> my server -> client.
We heavily use this feature on S3, and I would hope B2 does/will support it
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#139Is anyone aware of an enterprise(ish?) product that does encrypted off-site backups from a Windows environment to something like Glacier or B2? We're 75/25 Windows/Nix, and our backups (VMWare, NetApp) are all managed on the Windows side. We'd like to just fling weeklies at B2.
AltaVault sounds like the thing your looking for.
http://www.netapp.com/us/products/protection-software/altava...
Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!
Is there a possibility to request the backed up data in physical form. Let's say I backed up 8 TB of data for a small business, and I need to restore in 24 hrs, is it possible to request overnight shipments of hard drives of data so I can do the restore locally instead of taking weeks to download all that data I know amazon has this feature, not sure about google. Another question, what's the max number of buckets ca…
> what's the max number of buckets can an account hold?
We are limiting each account to 200 buckets right now until we gain some experience. Each bucket can hold unlimited numbers of files.
We really want feedback on these decisions, so as you run into issues just let us know. Many of the limits are arbitrary, I think the 200 buckets was so we didn't have to create a paginated list on your logged in webpage for version 1.