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> Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime. At least for the standard Bac
by pfranz 6y ago
> Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime.
At least for the standard Backblaze service you can download for free. For a USB drive you float the cost of the drive (they reimburse you when you return it)--maybe you pay shipping?
- tedivm 6y agoDownloading my full backup would use the entire month's quota on Comcast, forcing me to pay more money to my crappy ISP.
- pfranz 6y agoDownloading rarely makes sense for a full restore, but is perfect for smaller restores or tests. Even if it didn't blow away your quota they only keep the packaged restores around for 7 days and I've found that difficult to restore a large amount of data with home Internet. To restore it to a drive all you pay out of pocket is return shipping of the drive. The one time I had to use it I was slightly over the 30 days (I was waiting on a repair before I could restore the data) and it wasn't an issue.