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B2 is cool for business customers, but as a personal customer I'm a little salty about the context in which they present it. If you have an external drive that
by tedmiston 11y ago
B2 is cool for business customers, but as a personal customer I'm a little salty about the context in which they present it.
If you have an external drive that you don't plug in every 30 days, Backblaze deletes your backup. I pointed out how common it is to have a drive of old photos, media, etc. and was told I should subscribe to B2 if I wanted "an archival solution instead of a backup solution" for those files.
It made me feel like Backblaze was really penny pinching... I'm not a business after all.
- zyxley 11y ago> If you have an external drive that you don't plug in every 30 days, Backblaze deletes your backup. If you have any file that doesn't exist for 30 days, Backblaze deletes all backups of it.
- tedmiston 11y agoGood point. But specifically I mean files that exist and have not been deleted.
- notatoad 11y agothe "context with which they present it" is that it's not for personal use, so I'm not really sure what you have a problem with. Right on the landing page they say "B2 Cloud Storage is for Developers and IT. What will you build?" If you want a consumer-facing backup service, that's what backblaze's primary product is for.
- tedmiston 11y agoThat was my impression too until their customer service referred me to try B2 a few weeks ago when I raised this concern with my personal Backblaze account. I think their personal backup service should cover all of my personal data at one price, like other backup services do.