I wish I could use Backblaze to back up a Time Machine drive (second-level backup, offsite, daily/weekly) but that a use case they specifically don't do.
What do other people use for this?
Subscription Changes for Computer Backup
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Re: Subscription Changes for Computer Backup
#52I, for one, am happy to pay a bit more to keep supporting Backblaze. More than worth the $7/mo to sleep better at night, and the service has worked flawlessly for me.
Also a Backblaze unlimited backups user. The Mac app still doesn't autoupdate gracefully on demand using something like the Sparkle framework (clicking "Check for updates" brings up a prompt which takes you to a browser window to download a zip file you have to open and perform a traditional manual reinstall). The mobile app (at least on iOS) is seriously lacking. The restore experience is minimum viable (compared to…
> The Mac app still doesn't autoupdate gracefully
It does: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665068-How-d...
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#53I know it sounds like a broken MP3, but I don't see "support for Linux on non-servers" on that list of improvements - apparently because they still think only Linux users have large hard drives...
It's just not as easy to stop abuse on Linux, people would find a way to backup their 50TB NAS on it.
How would being on Linux help with that?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also a Backblaze unlimited backups user. The Mac app still doesn't autoupdate gracefully on demand using something like the Sparkle framework (clicking "Check for updates" brings up a prompt which takes you to a browser window to download a zip file you have to open and perform a traditional manual reinstall). The mobile app (at least on iOS) is seriously lacking. The restore experience is minimum viable (compared to…
> The Mac app still doesn't autoupdate gracefully It does: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665068-How-d...
Improved my comment to better communicate the thought. I believe my point still stands that if an update is available when you "check for updates", you have to download a zip file, open the disk image, and perform the install manually. Contrast to something like Bitwarden, where checking for an update performs the install and restarts the app automatically.
It's a minor quibble, but demonstrates a lack of polish imho.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If backing up my synology to Backblaze what's the best practice to ensure full end to end encryption. I do not want backblaze to have any way to see my files (I'd probably be ok with filenames however)...
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#56Uh... can this be abused to backup CCTV footage from a old DVR ? The data would be at once just 1 tb but the CCTV reuses the space so its 1tb each month. I know it would be ethically "bad" but if I had to do it, maybe set up a cron to push data from DVR to a PC which then uses backblaze software to backup and keep old files?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I absolutely know people who not use it in good faith. Same people that crammed many terabytes into Amazon Drive back when it was unlimited so that they could "back up their plex server".
So what is the best off-site solution for backing up a NAS in good faith? I have about 10TB of data that is "backed up" to varying degrees but no all-in-one solution right now.
rclone with anything that's paid per tb, e.g. Amazon S3/Glacier or Backblaze B2. Data storage (and retrieval!) isn't cheap, however, and the pricing isn't simple.
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#58I wish I could use Backblaze to back up a Time Machine drive (second-level backup, offsite, daily/weekly) but that a use case they specifically don't do. What do other people use for this?
I have two local Time Machine backups and I also have Backblaze running against the drives that Time Machine backs up.
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#59I have a NAS running Synology with like 5TB. Is there a way to back this up with end to end encryuption?
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#60Working in video production, I know there are a lot of videographers and photographers "abusing" the unlimited nature of this service. It's not my business how BackBlaze does things, or if the usage falls within their acceptable use policy, but I see so many in my industry brag about the insanely cheap rates BackBlaze offers on their computer backup. From my armchair, it seems like a bunch of personal users subsidize…
At one point, Mozy which was another backup service acquired by EMC went from unlimited to flat rate up to some limit and then charged incrementally, effectively "firing" their heavy users. I wasn't even that extreme and it made Mozy very economically unattractive to me.
Backblaze knows the numbers and I don't but it's certainly possible that the heaviest users don't cost them that much relative to the benefits of being truly unlimited without much fine print.