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Aye, but the problem is the PBs, not the TBs, from what I can tell.
by klodolph 6y ago
Aye, but the problem is the PBs, not the TBs, from what I can tell.
- mrguyorama 6y agoOne thing nobody really says is that backblaze actually requires everything you've backed up to be accessible to the computer at least once a month, so you can't actually delete something you've backed up unless you're willing to lose it in a month, or pay extra for the 1 year retention tier. Essentially you need to own the physical drive space to store anything on backblaze, so there's not much reason to abuse it.
- morpheuskafka 6y agoWonder how difficult it would be to patch the client or just make some sort of fake FUSE filesystem to bypass this.
- zaarn 6y agoIIRC their client detects FUSE and friends. People have used iSCSI or ATAoE to bypass this, but that comes with it's own limitations. Most people don't bother.
- SpelingBeeChamp 6y agoI doubt $2/month is a disincentive to a hoarder whose only alternative would be to pay per GB for the storage space they are using.
- mrguyorama 6y agoThat only allows them to delete things for less than a year, they would still have to develop some sort of system for redownloading all their data, putting it in a backed up drive, and leaving that drive plugged in for about 2 days for backblaze to actually notice it