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Whether or not I decide to use this service, this is one of the most useful announcement blog posts I've read in a while. The tone is not just "ok we released t

Whether or not I decide to use this service, this is one of the most useful announcement blog posts I've read in a while. The tone is not just "ok we released this" but instead "we released this, and here are some practical use cases if you are already doing X, Y, or Z" -- nice job.

atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!
- brianwski 11y ago
  There are several of us that are very happy to hear that!
- larrys 11y ago
  I want a way to be able to use this with ssh rsync scp and so on to preserve legacy backup routines that are now in place. (Including on systems that you will not be writing b2 clients for like old versions of Solaris).
  - hga 11y ago
    The canonical $$$ (relatively) way to do this is rsync.net: http://rsync.net/pricing.html http://rsync.net/pricing.html Saved me from losing quite a bit of data when a tornado trashed my apartment.
- bedros 11y ago
  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 can an account hold? Looking forward to try this service out, Thanks Bedros
  - wcfields 11y ago
    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.
    - brianwski 11y ago
      Up to the first 4 TBytes it is only $189 which includes you keeping the hard drive. I'll make it even better - if you ship us back the hard drive within 30 days (you pay return shipping) we'll refund the entire $189. The info on the program is published here: https://help.backblaze.com/entries/67512970-How-to-order-a-refundable-USB-Restore https://help.backblaze.com/entries/67512970-How-to-order-a-r...
      - johntash 11y ago
        Thanks for the information, I didn't know those drives were refundable! I was always turned off by having to download a huge zip file from backblaze when I wanted to restore something, but this actually sounds really nice of you guys for large datasets.
        brianwski 11y ago
        We didn't originally offer refundable hard drives. About six months ago we started this quiet experiment of allowing full refunds. We were worried it suddenly make the USB drives hugely attractive and overwhelm the currently deployed servers and Backblaze employees dedicated to the USB restore tasks. :-) It's been a successful test, and now we'll start promoting it more.
  - ddavidn 11y ago
    Yes, this is very important for my BUDR plan as well.
  - 11y ago
icelancer 11y ago
Backblaze generally does this very well with their product offerings and white papers. Would that the rest of the self-absorbed tech community do the same...

atYevP 11y ago

Yev from Backblaze here -> I cannot describe how pleased I am to read this comment. Thank you!

brianwski 11y ago
There are several of us that are very happy to hear that!
larrys 11y ago
I want a way to be able to use this with ssh rsync scp and so on to preserve legacy backup routines that are now in place. (Including on systems that you will not be writing b2 clients for like old versions of Solaris).
- hga 11y ago
  The canonical $$$ (relatively) way to do this is rsync.net: http://rsync.net/pricing.html http://rsync.net/pricing.html Saved me from losing quite a bit of data when a tornado trashed my apartment.
bedros 11y ago
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 can an account hold? Looking forward to try this service out, Thanks Bedros
- wcfields 11y ago
  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.
  - brianwski 11y ago
    Up to the first 4 TBytes it is only $189 which includes you keeping the hard drive. I'll make it even better - if you ship us back the hard drive within 30 days (you pay return shipping) we'll refund the entire $189. The info on the program is published here: https://help.backblaze.com/entries/67512970-How-to-order-a-refundable-USB-Restore https://help.backblaze.com/entries/67512970-How-to-order-a-r...
    - johntash 11y ago
      Thanks for the information, I didn't know those drives were refundable! I was always turned off by having to download a huge zip file from backblaze when I wanted to restore something, but this actually sounds really nice of you guys for large datasets.
      - brianwski 11y ago
        We didn't originally offer refundable hard drives. About six months ago we started this quiet experiment of allowing full refunds. We were worried it suddenly make the USB drives hugely attractive and overwhelm the currently deployed servers and Backblaze employees dedicated to the USB restore tasks. :-) It's been a successful test, and now we'll start promoting it more.
- ddavidn 11y ago
  Yes, this is very important for my BUDR plan as well.
- 11y ago

icelancer 11y ago

Backblaze generally does this very well with their product offerings and white papers. Would that the rest of the self-absorbed tech community do the same...