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Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by Hamuko »

HanaShiratori wrote: post #168
OnlyMortal wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn’t. But, if it’s a key generated at their end, they could dedupe the original data. S3 bucket encryption been an example. Source: I work in deduplication for a well known company.

Not sure how the keys are generated (I'm not a backblaze user) but since one apparently has to use their software for backup jobs there might be chance that they also store the keys on their servers for this exact purpose... This would definitely limit the inconvenience caused by personal users with huge amounts of data - like op with his 80 TB

Backblaze has options to supply your own key, but it's an optional feature. I'm gonna guess that over 90% of Backblaze users do not supply their own keys.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by wyclif »

cupofjoakim wrote: post #155

A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment. They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not in…

It's amazing how many musicians today are dependent on data storage for live performances.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by Bayart »

wyclif wrote: post #172
cupofjoakim wrote: post #155

A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment. They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not in…

It's amazing how many musicians today are dependent on data storage for live performances.

VSTs are lighter than pedals.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by schleck8 »

mrgill wrote: post #165

I tried Backblaze's backup plan. Their software is just not good, I would say it's even bad. It just didn't work for me. Something poorly written that they just didn't bother to improve. I guess because most of their customers can't tell the difference anyway whether it's working or not.

That's what I heard as well

https://youtu.be/jJGwZolT9fI

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by iyn »

eikenberry wrote: post #122
Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

rsync.net is a very different product though. I recently evaluated a bunch of cloud storage/backup services. rsync.net is a ssh-accessible ZFS filesystem (including support for zfs send/recv) in the cloud, B2 is object storage. rsync.net has a cheaper version aimed at people doing borg backups. Unfortunately it's still 3x the cost of B2 for 1TB of data.

I currently use B2 for my offsite backups, only around 1.5TB, using rclone. Works well and costs just under $7/mo. I looked at rsync.net and really liked the idea, but costing 5x as much just doesn't justify the features. Where do they offer the 3x cost solution? Cheapest pricing I can find is 2.5cents/GiB/mo (the 5x price).

You need to look at their pages for specific tools, e.g. for Borg Backup: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html (starts from 1.5 Cents Per GB / Month)

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by iyn »

vadfa wrote: post #142

For a long time I have wanted to use one of these systems, but I would never upload anything to the cloud unless I encrypted it with an algorithm that I trust like GNU's gpg first. Is there any application, preferably for Windows, that can handle this for me? Synchronise files with a cloud system, but encrypting/decrypting them transparently as they are uploaded/downloaded.

I use Borg: https://www.borgbackup.org/ works well on client machines and servers.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by dsego »

throwawaysea wrote: post #136
divbzero wrote: post #124

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I use rclone as well and it has worked reliably for years. Keeping the password [1] separate allows me to restore files to a fresh computer as needed. Backblaze B2 is just one of many backend options [2]. [1]: https://rclone.org/crypt/ [2]: https://rclone.org/overview/

How does one use this with something like a Synology NAS? Or is that not really the intended workflow? I’m imagining something like a local backup plus a backup to cloud.

You can run it on synology via docker, there are guides online. But it's not really straightforward.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by Mister_Snuggles »

ac29 wrote: post #82
Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #65

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What's your process for backing up to B2 using borg? I'm currently doing borg backups to a local server, then using restic to back up my borg backups to B2. My reason for using restic over rclone is so that if the local backup is corrupted I've got history on the remote to fall back to. I'm hoping to find a less cumbersome way to do this.

Why not just use restic directly to back up?

That was my plan, but restic doesn't do compression so that would increase costs and backup time.

Some use-cases, like photo libraries, won't benefit much from compression, so I may use restic directly for those.

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by mijoharas »

vadfa wrote: post #142

For a long time I have wanted to use one of these systems, but I would never upload anything to the cloud unless I encrypted it with an algorithm that I trust like GNU's gpg first. Is there any application, preferably for Windows, that can handle this for me? Synchronise files with a cloud system, but encrypting/decrypting them transparently as they are uploaded/downloaded.

I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned tarsnap[0].

It can apparently run via WSL. The main selling point is that it's made by colin percival[1], so if you really care about the security of your backups, you can't get any better.

Additionally, it's fairly reasonably priced. When s3 dropped their prices so that tarsnap became cheaper to run, he passed that on directly to customers[2]

[0] https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Percival

[2] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-04-02-tarsnap-price-cut...

Re: Backblaze S-1 IPO

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Post by buzzy_hacker »

p00dles wrote: post #149
petecooper wrote: post #146

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https://arqbackup.com/ I use the macOS version and it's excellent.

do you mind if I ask where you store the Arq backup? On a separate physical drive, in a cloud service, etc.?

I use Arq and backup to B2. I use it instead of backblaze directly for the encryption.
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