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I was unable to recover backed up files on backblaze. It just doesn’t work. They don’t seem to do any periodic integrity checks on the cold data. I lost most of
by juancn 5y ago
I was unable to recover backed up files on backblaze. It just doesn’t work. They don’t seem to do any periodic integrity checks on the cold data. I lost most of my files, they were able to recover maybe 20% of the data.
Use anything else, but not backblaze.
- mabbo 5y agoThis reminds me of the xkcd comic "TornadoGuard"[0]. Whatever else the company is doing, if their core functionality doesn't fundamentally work when it needs to, then what is everyone paying for? [0]https://m.xkcd.com/937/ https://m.xkcd.com/937/
- zebraflask 5y agoI've never had a problem with BackBlaze - wasn't it at some point one the gold standards for backups?
- manicdee 5y agoOnly by virtue of being the most recognised name in this space.
- crossroadsguy 5y agoBut they publish hard disk reports and their PR person talks to people on HN; sometimes founder as well. They must be the best.