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I am totally okay with them charging however much money they need to in order to be reliable. I switched recently from Crashplan over to Backblaze because Cras

I am totally okay with them charging however much money they need to in order to be reliable. I switched recently from Crashplan over to Backblaze because Crashplan just couldn't reliably get a complete backup of my workstation. Backblaze does not seem to have any problem with that at all. This is what I want from a backup -- after all, as they say, backups are worth nothing but restores are priceless. Another dollar a month is nothing.

atYevP 7y ago
Yev here -> Thanks! Staying reliable and in-business are two things that we care deeply about!
- microcolonel 7y ago
  Your desktop application for Windows (which I do not use personally, but have set up for a couple other people) is pretty great as far as backup provider applications go. The one thing that wasn't spectacular was the signup flow. I found it a bit confusing: IIRC if you subscribe to Backblaze from the prompt in the application, it doesn't automatically configure when that subscription is purchased, so you have to download the custom installer or whatever the normal process is (I don't exactly remember, except that it was a bit less smooth than I wanted). Nonetheless, once that was out of the way, my brother's two-seat setup works great, and it has given me considerable peace of mind that he will not simply lose all of his audio production files, and be crushed. B2 is great value and I use it wherever I can.
- jve 7y ago
  Yep, for years there has been 0 issues with Windows backup application itself.
Faark 7y ago
Crashplan is kinda reliable to me... but sloooow. Recently had a drive die on me. Restore was buggy at first. Support seemed competent (hope that weren't just common text blocks) and gave me a more recent installer with my primary gripe fixed. That was about 10 days ago and I'm at 11% down of 3TB :( Yeah, I can understand that not fitting someones use-case. Backblaze on the other hand didn't offer client side encryption when I last checked, so I'll have to stick with the slow one.
- rootusrootus 7y ago
  Yeah, when I say Crashplan couldn't reliably get a backup, I guess that "slow" would be more technically correct. 90 days after I hooked up my new MacBook Pro, it still did not have a complete backup. Just trickling data. I gave up and got Backblaze and it was fully uploaded in a couple days.

atYevP 7y ago

Yev here -> Thanks! Staying reliable and in-business are two things that we care deeply about!

microcolonel 7y ago
Your desktop application for Windows (which I do not use personally, but have set up for a couple other people) is pretty great as far as backup provider applications go. The one thing that wasn't spectacular was the signup flow. I found it a bit confusing: IIRC if you subscribe to Backblaze from the prompt in the application, it doesn't automatically configure when that subscription is purchased, so you have to download the custom installer or whatever the normal process is (I don't exactly remember, except that it was a bit less smooth than I wanted). Nonetheless, once that was out of the way, my brother's two-seat setup works great, and it has given me considerable peace of mind that he will not simply lose all of his audio production files, and be crushed. B2 is great value and I use it wherever I can.
jve 7y ago
Yep, for years there has been 0 issues with Windows backup application itself.

Faark 7y ago

Crashplan is kinda reliable to me... but sloooow. Recently had a drive die on me. Restore was buggy at first. Support seemed competent (hope that weren't just common text blocks) and gave me a more recent installer with my primary gripe fixed. That was about 10 days ago and I'm at 11% down of 3TB :( Yeah, I can understand that not fitting someones use-case. Backblaze on the other hand didn't offer client side encryption when I last checked, so I'll have to stick with the slow one.

rootusrootus 7y ago
Yeah, when I say Crashplan couldn't reliably get a backup, I guess that "slow" would be more technically correct. 90 days after I hooked up my new MacBook Pro, it still did not have a complete backup. Just trickling data. I gave up and got Backblaze and it was fully uploaded in a couple days.