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For a backup service they have too many ifs and gotchas. I’d personally stay as far away from them. I’d rather want something that charges more and doesn’t off

For a backup service they have too many ifs and gotchas. I’d personally stay as far away from them. I’d rather want something that charges more and doesn’t offer that gimmicky unlimited storage and gives me unlimited versioning and external media and doesn’t delete anything as long as I’m paying and am within my storage limit. That simple. That’s why I preferred CrashPlan which had a desktop app much less polished than Backblaze but they were a true backup service. So Backblaze Personal Backup service is a bullshit wrapped in a sophisticated app. My aversion to them is on the same lines of of those VPN and cloud storage companies (pCloud, Koofr etc) offering lifetime plans. And that’s an unsustainable rate!! I mean what else is there to be argued. Data hoarder crowd often use them. Lifetime, unlimited are one word gimmicks which ought to be treated as red flags on giant billboards.

55873445216111 5y ago
I use Duplicati (duplicati.com) with Backblaze B2 as a backend for my backups. I get billed by GB-month and I get to define exactly what files to backup and how many versions to keep.
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  I use restic -> b2. And also Vorta (which uses borg) -> rsync, borgbase; Tarsnap -> Tarsnap's S3 (I guess). Vorta so far has been really good and has lots of potential. (Badly need a restic GUI here. May drop restic anytime - I am not comfortable having a personal backup setup without a GUI)
  - davidandgoliath 5y ago
    rclone is fairly swell, and, comes with a spawnable browser ui.
    - crossroadsguy 5y ago
      Is it a backup tool? Or a clone things to some remote tool? I mean does it have standard differential backup features ie dedup, diff, compress, e2e, snapshot etc?
apple4ever 5y ago
Check out Arq. I switched from Backblaze to them. They are good, similar to CrashPlan.
leokennis 5y ago
I don't get the vitriol. BackBlaze is pretty clear on what it offers: for $7 a month, you can backup your entire computer with 30 days of history. Nothing more nothing less* Your post is like being angry at Ford that the F150 is a pickup and not a bicycle. It's true...but it isn't being marketed as such. You are just in the market for a different product. * Well, if you dig deeper you can pay extra for unlimited data retention

55873445216111 5y ago

I use Duplicati (duplicati.com) with Backblaze B2 as a backend for my backups. I get billed by GB-month and I get to define exactly what files to backup and how many versions to keep.

crossroadsguy 5y ago
I use restic -> b2. And also Vorta (which uses borg) -> rsync, borgbase; Tarsnap -> Tarsnap's S3 (I guess). Vorta so far has been really good and has lots of potential. (Badly need a restic GUI here. May drop restic anytime - I am not comfortable having a personal backup setup without a GUI)
- davidandgoliath 5y ago
  rclone is fairly swell, and, comes with a spawnable browser ui.
  - crossroadsguy 5y ago
    Is it a backup tool? Or a clone things to some remote tool? I mean does it have standard differential backup features ie dedup, diff, compress, e2e, snapshot etc?

apple4ever 5y ago

Check out Arq. I switched from Backblaze to them. They are good, similar to CrashPlan.

leokennis 5y ago

I don't get the vitriol. BackBlaze is pretty clear on what it offers: for $7 a month, you can backup your entire computer with 30 days of history. Nothing more nothing less* Your post is like being angry at Ford that the F150 is a pickup and not a bicycle. It's true...but it isn't being marketed as such. You are just in the market for a different product. * Well, if you dig deeper you can pay extra for unlimited data retention