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Is Blackblaze used mainly as a backup solution? Can anyone give me a use case?

jseutter 7y ago
Assuming you mean Backblaze and not Blackblaze.. I have data that is important to me (family photos, etc.) on my hard drive. I have a backups of that data running on a Raspberry Pi with an attached drive. If my house gets broken into, or burns down, or hit by a tornado, basically something Really Bad, Backblaze has a copy of my data offsite. It is tempting to use Backblaze as my only backup, but like they describe on their site, their primary value is as a backup of your backups. Normally you should never have to use them, and if you do, it will be slow. Now if you are in a hurry they offer a service to ship you your data on a thumb drive or hard drive, but that gives you an idea of their primary use.
- anchpop 7y ago
  Amusingly, blackblaze.com redirects to backblaze.com. I assume people have made that mistake before.
  - bluedino 7y ago
    Yes, they did and they even wrote a blog post about it: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-site/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-s...
    - atYevP 7y ago
      Yea, that was a fun "should we do this" conversation around the office...
atYevP 7y ago
Yev here from Backblaze -> the company started by providing unlimited online backup, and that's a great industry for us. About 4 years ago we released Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which allows developers or sysadmins or enthusiasts to directly upload/retrieve data to/from our data centers. Our core competency is data storage - so while most folks do use us for a backup (either of their Mac or PC on the consumer side or servers/NAS devices with B2 Cloud storage) - what we really do is store and retrieve data.
- bluedino 7y ago
  So you guys basically wrote your own Ceph?
  - atYevP 7y ago
    Sort of, but not really, we just wrote APIs that let people talk to our pods directly. You can read about our architecture here (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architecture/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...) and check out the APIs and how we built them here (backblaze.com/b2/docs/).

Assuming you mean Backblaze and not Blackblaze.. I have data that is important to me (family photos, etc.) on my hard drive. I have a backups of that data running on a Raspberry Pi with an attached drive. If my house gets broken into, or burns down, or hit by a tornado, basically something Really Bad, Backblaze has a copy of my data offsite. It is tempting to use Backblaze as my only backup, but like they describe on their site, their primary value is as a backup of your backups. Normally you should never have to use them, and if you do, it will be slow. Now if you are in a hurry they offer a service to ship you your data on a thumb drive or hard drive, but that gives you an idea of their primary use.

anchpop 7y ago
Amusingly, blackblaze.com redirects to backblaze.com. I assume people have made that mistake before.
- bluedino 7y ago
  Yes, they did and they even wrote a blog post about it: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-site/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-s...
  - atYevP 7y ago
    Yea, that was a fun "should we do this" conversation around the office...

atYevP 7y ago

Yev here from Backblaze -> the company started by providing unlimited online backup, and that's a great industry for us. About 4 years ago we released Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which allows developers or sysadmins or enthusiasts to directly upload/retrieve data to/from our data centers. Our core competency is data storage - so while most folks do use us for a backup (either of their Mac or PC on the consumer side or servers/NAS devices with B2 Cloud storage) - what we really do is store and retrieve data.

bluedino 7y ago
So you guys basically wrote your own Ceph?
- atYevP 7y ago
  Sort of, but not really, we just wrote APIs that let people talk to our pods directly. You can read about our architecture here (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architecture/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...) and check out the APIs and how we built them here (backblaze.com/b2/docs/).