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by atYevP 10y ago
Hey there! Thanks for using us :D Icefo is correct, we don't currently have plans for Linux support - but we do have Backblaze B2. While not unlimited, it gives a lot more flexibility, and may end up being less expensive, depending on
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> While I'd obviously listen to Yev first over me LOL, that is NOT the prevailing wisdom around the office :P We do have an integrations page, I just pulled the first one I could think of. More info here -> https://www
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Sure, we consider it every now and again but for now we like "clean" pricing - meaning that it's the same across the board. Of course that might change in the future, but we try to strive for simplicity, so having different &
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> S3-like API if you wanted to down the road. We already have -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html ! Vaults was one of the reasons why we could build out ourB2 Cloud Storage service. We considered a
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We do try to emphasize a 3-2-1 backup strategy through newsletters and blogs posts. A few examples: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ and more recently https://www.backblaze.com&
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> You could have a disgruntled or mentally unbalanced employee. The recent S3 outage was caused by a typo. You can plan around natural disasters and all sorts of things, but the vast majority of the time, data loss is caused by humans. D
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Great to hear, glad you're enjoying it! Hopefully you won't need to use support too much :D
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Yev from Backblaze here -> We do have some B2 integrators that have RSYNC capabilities. Take a look at B2 Fuse -> https://github.com/sondree/b2_fuse
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes we do plan on expanding to more datacenters, and we do have emergency plans in place, though we do choose our datacenters carefully to make sure that we avoid any natural-disaster prone areas. As for backin
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It's tough b/c we don't really keep track of prices after we buy them. Sometimes we go out and look up different drives on Amazon and add those in, but I don't remember if we keep track of exactly what you're trying
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by atYevP 10y ago
You'd be surprised! We've restored over 20 Billion files at this point, folks are CONSTANTLY downloading one or two files, and because we encrypt everything before sending it up, when someone browses their tree we have to "fi
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Always! But sometimes I miss the comments b/c I don't an alert when someone responds to me, sorry for the delay, hope you see this. We recycle the drives once we take them out of circulation. First we secure wipe all the of them,
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Heeeey ;-) Yea, I look back fondly on them. Had much less to do, less responsibility - could spend my day frolicking on the internet...no more!
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Yea still pretty pricey! Getting there though! We're waiting :D
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I got you :D
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> Related topic: I'd like to see an update on the enterprise vs commodity hard drives. Yev from Backblaze here -> we wrote about this in 2013 and have honestly not bought too many enterprise drives since, simply because they were
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> They do very little to dampen vibration amongst other things, based on their last pod design. Yev from Backblaze -> In Storage Pod 6 we actually did a lot more to work on the dampening (and 5.0 as well, but 6.0 builds on it). The dr
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> Since you have many years of data, do you explicitly factor the observed the failure rate patterns of particular brands into cost models when buying drives? Sometimes. We do take it in to account but if a hard drive that costs less but
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Yev from Backblaze here -> We wrote a bit about this in our SMART Stats blog post -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/ .
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Time..../sigh
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Yev from Backblaze here w/ some insight -> Yes! They are expensive. We are looking to test some in our environment very soon, but may not have enough to (we want at least 45) to truly test them. Once they drop further in price and w
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, with our Computer Backup service we have a 30-day history, so you'd just rollback time and restore from before infection. We've had a lot of customers have to do this -> https://www
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by atYevP 10y ago
Absolutely, and that makes perfect sense. Having one system in place definitely beats out multiples. We know we can't be all things for all folks, but Crashplan is great, no hard feelings ;)
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Tape tends to have much higher read times, and can even be more expensive than hard drives in some cases. Since we have Backblaze B2 the data needs to be highly available.
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Believe Snowball is encrypted and fairly locked down, not sure we could do that.
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by atYevP 10y ago
#SubvertingTheInternetsSince1998 :D
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No, he was agreeing. We have a lot of projects on our map to shore up some of these types of issues, but our admins are in high demand, so some of the lower-priority tasks slip on occasion. Since we rarely have issues with the blog (today w
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Our web sys admin heard me read that out loud and now we have to get him an ice-pack because he almost shoved his head entirely through his desk.
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Back now!
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It's back now :D

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