For many users, though - they will never use the restore capability. And for those who do, with Backblaze, they'll usually get a FedEx of a Hard Drive - so Rec

For many users, though - they will never use the restore capability. And for those who do, with Backblaze, they'll usually get a FedEx of a Hard Drive - so Recovery time is measured in about a day or so. I wouldn't downplay the consumer backup/restore angle so quickly - for many (most?) consumers, the ability to restore rapidly is balanced by their desire to have low monthly payments. I think we're going to see a lot of consumer backup applications built on top of Glacier in the next several months that will be competing with (the already excellent) backblaze and friends. (Note - Backblaze has excellent real-time restore, with date versioning, for those of us who use it as an online data recovery tool as well)