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Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) -

Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) - yes. But then it stops there. On top of that if you read the ifs, buts, and gotchas you’d want to stay far away from them. They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules. Besides I do not trust any service that promises to give anything “unlimited” for a fixed cost. As I usually mention in comments on this topic - I’d strongly urge people to use and support backup tools like borgbackup.org (Vorta is an excellent GUI), restic.net (a GUI is glaringly missing), kopia.io (up and coming; comes with a GUI), for smaller datasets there’s very good but more expansive Tarsnap (not FOSS). And then there are others - https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-software https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-software

KennyBlanken 5y ago
> They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules. laughs in Code42 Code 42, makers of Crashplan, who shut down their consumer backup service and deleted the private keys needed to decrypt backups on your own drives... ...followed that up by recently announcing that they were changing file retention rules to purge all files older than 90 days. They lied and said it would be effective in a week or so, but it turns out that it was effective upon your archives being run through the periodic compact process after the announcement, and of course some people were at the head of that line. Crashplan Pro Enterprise was a brilliant backup system and they drove it into the ground through staggering sales and support incompetence. Now they sell some buzzword-box-ticking "stop your employees from COPYING THAT FLOPPY!" big-brother-esque profiling/monitoring software. Thank you for mentioning those other backup programs, by the way. Hadn't heard of one or two.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

> They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules. laughs in Code42 Code 42, makers of Crashplan, who shut down their consumer backup service and deleted the private keys needed to decrypt backups on your own drives... ...followed that up by recently announcing that they were changing file retention rules to purge all files older than 90 days. They lied and said it would be effective in a week or so, but it turns out that it was effective upon your archives being run through the periodic compact process after the announcement, and of course some people were at the head of that line. Crashplan Pro Enterprise was a brilliant backup system and they drove it into the ground through staggering sales and support incompetence. Now they sell some buzzword-box-ticking "stop your employees from COPYING THAT FLOPPY!" big-brother-esque profiling/monitoring software. Thank you for mentioning those other backup programs, by the way. Hadn't heard of one or two.