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by atYevP 10y ago
Internally we're blaming our SEO people for putting to much crap on the blog itself ;) But yea, it's worth exploring - though we have our own servers that should be able to handle the load. We haven't had blog loading trouble
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're kicking a couple of server. Lots of load from the traffic so we're putting top me on it! TOP MEN!
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from backblaze here -> Yea we're kicking a server or two, it's been loading slow from all the traffic so we put top men on it. TOP MEN!
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by atYevP 10y ago
It's a mixture of a couple things. One is that we tend to run pretty lean and our engineers are all booked up for the foreseeable future. Linux users are a passionate community, but we can't quite justify the development time for
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> have you checked out B2? We likely won't have a Linux client for our backup service any time soon, but our B2 service has a lot of integrators (like Cloudberry and Duplicity, HashBackup, etc..) that can ba
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by atYevP 10y ago
Hey I wrote that! Man, I love seeing stuff like this pop back up. At least someone read it. <3
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by atYevP 10y ago
You can read a bit more about our infrastructure -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect... - Right now we essentially "RAID" across multiple racks - so we can lose an entire rack a
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're working on it!
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by atYevP 10y ago
> Out of curiosity, is there any reason why you haven't tried to tackle the EMC demographic? We didn't want to be in the hardware market. We outsource all of our "builds" to companies that are willing to bend the meta
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> Especially it ending up in your own marketing material EVERYTHING can be marketing materials if you try hard enough :D
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by atYevP 10y ago
Hey Erich! Definitely ping the B2 folks about that -> https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/requests/new - they are collecting lists from folks and they'd want to hear your use-case and why the addition
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by atYevP 10y ago
> Are you adding storage because of new users, or increasing storage needs of your existing users? 100,000 users needing an extra 50gb each would require 5,000tb of increased storage. Both - As digital imaging and video have become more
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yea, as a result of -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-s...
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by atYevP 10y ago
Analemma_ -> It happens to everyone (except me, because I have a lot of practice). But I wrote a little something about it -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-backblaze-bought-a-porn-s...
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^ -> True ;)
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And "degestion" rates - as tape would typically have longer "restore" times.
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Primarily yes - though we just added a new service for cloud-object storage called B2 and that's taking off quite a bit as well (but that's only been out of beta since late-June). Mostly the backup se
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by atYevP 10y ago
> I guess my real concern is, that is a lot of data to lose to one device failure. So raid/mirroring is so much more important. Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, we raid across different pods w/ Reed Solomon ( https:/&#x2
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Thanks! We try to keep the droll posts to a minimum :)
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here - Looking at those screens that's what happens when the installer doesn't install correctly (obviously), it can happen for a bunch of reasons, usually the easy stuff like anti-virus and all that jazz, but u
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yo! Sorry, yes. To sign in to the web for Backblaze B2 you can choose to have 2FV enabled - though we require that you at least set up the phone to do this. 2FV is like 2FA except in our implementation, at the moment, the only 2nd factor is
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We require a 2FV for Backblaze B2 for added security - it's not for sales purposes, but for our 2FV implementation.
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by atYevP 10y ago
With Backblaze B2 the data has to be available at all times, so powering them down isn't really feasible. For personal backup it might have been, though the manpower it would have taken might have also knocked it out of whack a bit.
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here. Let me elaborate on what Brian said. A lot of our customers also restore just for fun or out of convenience. But yea, if you're one of the ones that's doing it out of necessity after a crash or theft, know
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> For us the drives are constantly spinning, we don't power them down. One of the reasons is we never know when a customer will want a restore, so we have the data available 24/7. That said with our Vau
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev here -> From what we can tell and have been told they are run as completely different entities. Hopefully that quality spillover will indeed happen in the future, but for what it's worth WD isn't doing all too poorly, they
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Yev from Backblaze -> That's about right ;)
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by atYevP 10y ago
That graph is pretty dope! When it first came out we had fun diving in to it! Glad someone is using our data-set for fun stuff!
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by atYevP 10y ago
> You don't have backups, unless you can do restores. So you have to practice doing restores. 100% - I worked hard to make sure that was in the Best Practices sent out to every person that signs up with Backblaze. Restoring is the m
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by atYevP 10y ago
I imagine it has something to do with demand or their partnerships with their distributors. This is conjecture, but I'd think that in order to keep distribution deals/channels up they might have deals in place that stipulate any o

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