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After reading this post I'm tempted to sign up, but I'm fearful, $5 a month is a great price, I would quickly move our backups over (hundreds of GBs), but it do
by asnyder 16y ago
After reading this post I'm tempted to sign up, but I'm fearful, $5 a month is a great price, I would quickly move our backups over (hundreds of GBs), but it doesn't seem sustainable... what am I missing?
- amock 16y agoI used BackBlaze for a while before I switched to Linux and it worked pretty well. At one point I wanted to download a lot of my files at once and the 80GB zip file they provided didn't work, but I was able to download it in smaller pieces. I think that by limiting file size, not providing a Linux client, and not backing up network drives they try to avoid some of the largest storage consumers.
- BlazingFrog 16y agoGood point. Also, unlike others I'd tried in the past (iDrive, Carbonite), you don't have direct access to your backed up data. You essentially file a online "request" to retrieve this or that file/folder and wait for their email to tell you where to get it. It probably allows them to store the data in a more compartmentalized, potentially cheaper, environment. Since most people will almost never attempt to restore data, it's not a big problem.
- npk 16y agoI personally had a bad customer service experience from them and switched. It's not obvious to me if you can generalize from one person's experience -- however -- the crux of my issue is their choice to not allow you to call them on the phone. It looks like this is still true (but I'm not certain). As a result of their cheapo policy, and the particular problem I was having, I switched.