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Nine months ago, I said the following. It feels good to predict things before they happen: Backblaze should expand their service to a cheaper cloud storage service similar to Amazon S3. They already have the infrastructure and the know-how. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8756119
I 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.
I saw the comment about getting drives shipped to you, which is pretty neat, but what about the other way? I have about 50 TB of data we'd like to store, but only 5mbps upstream. Can we ship drives to you?
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When I was a customer of BB I noticed no issue with the uploads, but actually when I had a flood and my hardware was destroyed, redownloading all my information was order of magnitudes slower. I tried from multiple physical locations but I could not increase my downloads past 1-2mbps, and for TB of data, that seemed like it was throttled by BB considering I was easily uploading 20mbps. I contacted BB support and they…
Brian from Backblaze here. I wonder if that was during the incredibly annoying "Comcast goes to war with Netflix" era that Backblaze got caught up in. That was Nov 2013 through Feb 2014, you can read a little about it here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/obama-backs-net-neutrality/ (scroll down for our graphs showing our customers getting throttled). That seriously sucked for Backblaze. But either way, we added threa…
This is awesome! I've been waiting for this for awhile. I saw the comment about getting drives shipped to you, which is pretty neat, but what about the other way? I have about 50 TB of data we'd like to store, but only 5mbps upstream. Can we ship drives to you?
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> Would love to hear ... what you might do with B2. B2 finally creates an option for Linux users to use BackBlaze for back-up (at minimum) at work and at home. I look forward to that.
A python command line tool that should work on Linux to send folders to B2 is available for download here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html CAVEAT (PLEASE READ): this does NOT encrypt data yet!! This is just a quick technology demonstration, it isn't a polished backup client. Give us another month for that... We expect Linux servers (and desktops) to make up a significant percentage of the th…
I didn't see this - are data centres available in different regions? Or is this a US-centric offering? I ask because I tried Backblaze a while back, and uploads from the UK were very slow.
> I ask because I tried Backblaze a while back, and uploads from the UK were very slow.
Curiously from here in Japan, I've managed to clock 80 MBit/s backing up to Backblaze. I presume it all has to do with what kind of international peering your ISP has.
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Now with B2 we immediately support Linux and provide a client for it out of the box (written in python). Granted, it is only a command line interface so give us a little time to polish it up and add some features.
Get me access to the private beta and you'll have a ruby gem very quickly. kyle@kyledrake.net
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I, for one, prefer the directness of not having to go through a front-end proxy. It probably eliminates some failure modes. I think that, instead of Backblaze providing an S3-compatible API, someone should do an open-source S3-compatible front-end for B2, that any interested user can run on a cheap VPS.
I work at https://kloudless.com . While not S3-compatible, we offer a similar proxy that provides a single API to multiple storage services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, SharePoint, etc. We've also released support for S3 and Azure and are looking into B2.
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Right now your only option would be to "buffer" packets of say 1 MByte in RAM, calculate the SHA-1, then store them as separate files in Backblaze B2. We do plan to add file offset access and larger file support very soon, so you would be able to append a 1 MByte chunk to an existing file in Backblaze with a SHA-1 of only the 1 MByte chunk. That should allow you to stream? All great feedback, by the way. We really wa…
Having to know the SHA1 in advance would be a show stopper for rclone ( http://rclone.org ) as it uses a streaming model internally (it can stream between cloud providers). Being able to append to a file in 1 MByte chunks (or larger) would be perfect - that is exactly the way Amazon S3 multipart uploads and google drive multipart uploads work.