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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze on the "Personal Backup" client. > So then why doesn't Backblaze have a Linux client There are several choices for Linux including: Duplicacy, Duplicati, GoodSync, HashBackup. All of those
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by brianwski 7y ago
> May I ask why Backblaze doesn't offer client-side decryption? Kind of a historical accident mostly. When we built the very first product, we just thought we would build a web based restore process, and the ability to view your fil
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by brianwski 7y ago
> Comcast is promising 1GB download speeds. Their maximum upload speed is still an abysmal 35Mbps. Well, I have Comcast and my upload speed is 100 Mbits/sec. But even at 35 Mbits/sec you can upload 378 GBytes PER DAY. That mea
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze and I wrote the Inherit Backup State functionality. > inherit process on the server can’t handle my "too large backup state’s indexes" Yeah, I'm sorry about that and it is on my plate to fix
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. > supports client side encryption, making Blackblaze not really an option for me Just to be clear, Backblaze Personal Backup encrypts all files on the client side, period. Now by defau
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Is there any way to test the speed to the EU data center? Create a free Backblaze account in the EU datacenter region. Then upload/download some data! The first 10 GBytes of B2 is 100% free, you
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > manually call out the outliers We have never (yet) ejected anybody or asked them to leave for having too much data. What we do request (politely) is that customers with a large amount of data recommend
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Can you abuse Backblaze on Windows or Macintosh? Backblaze lives on the "averages", and so far the averages for Windows and Macintosh have worked out for us. We don't have any deep pocke
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Has this policy changed at some point? It is more complicated than just "after 30 days" (and always has been). If your laptop is entirely offline (or you simply uninstall the client from you
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > when you loose your data you have only 30 days to get it back before Backblaze deletes it as well! Not anymore! As of this morning's 7.0 release, you can always switch your backup to one year rete
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > It required re-uploading more than 300GB of data. What should occur is that it must READ all of the files to make sure it has transmitted them already, which can take hours sometimes, but only a tiny, t
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > I backed up 11TB. As long as we are outliers I don't think it's an issue. I work on the backup client, and I like larger customers for the reason that if the client works for the larger custom
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > they said the biggest user was storing 430TB on the $5 plan Here is the histogram of Personal Backup sizes at the end of 2018: https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg You will need to "zoo
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > no way to empty a bucket. Backblaze currently recommends you do this by writing a “Lifecycle rule” to hide/delete all files in the bucket, then let Backblaze empty the bucket for you on the server
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by brianwski 7y ago
> How would one go about finding the right block size? From our IT guy who figured out the problem...... "If it's 4K native, then a multiple of 4K is a good starting point. If it's not then a multiple of 512 is ok. If it&#
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze > You need to add "cost to repair" into your equation. At my old job we used to figure $300 to replace a drive This is TOTALLY true, and Backblaze does add in the cost to repair. At our scale, w
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > The important things for me when considering a drive are ... noise For a drive in the same room as me, I TOTALLY agree and I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more often. Before I switched to
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > No wonder Backblaze has replaced most of their inventory with these two brands. We Reed-Solomon encode each file across multiple drives in multiple machines, and we always use "enough parity"
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > How do those customers ever delete anything? Click every single file? The current recommended work around is to write a very short "life cycle rule" in the web GUI that deletes any/all f
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by brianwski 7y ago
I'm the Backblaze employee that wrote that quote. :-) > YOU can work around this problem, the naive customers CANNOT. That was specifically in response to a Backblaze Personal Backup feature request. > I guess a "delete&quo
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by brianwski 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > I wonder if Backblaze does anything similar to provision drives. We do different things for different drives, but ALWAYS have a "burn in" period for new vaults (group of 20 computers that file
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by brianwski 8y ago
I work at Backblaze. > how many physical locations to they run? Two separate datacenters in the Sacramento (California) region, and one in Phoenix (Arizona). We are trying to open a European (Netherlands) datacenter this month or next m
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by brianwski 8y ago
> US consider itself “owner” Well, I work most days in San Mateo, California, but 15% of the data we store for customers ALREADY comes from the EU, and more from other countries. Backblaze fully complies with all EU laws already, such a
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by brianwski 8y ago
> largefiles sliced into small Yes. Backblaze makes a copy locally of all files larger than 30 MBytes, broken into 10 MByte chunks. They’re stored on your “Temporary Scratch Disk” (which you can specify). One hint would be to put your
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by brianwski 8y ago
Correct. > if any datacenter is completely wiped out Correct. When all of our datacenters were in Sacramento, California, some customers told us they were concerned because they were ALSO in Sacramento and a meteor could wipe out both t
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by brianwski 8y ago
If it was half failed we would DEFINITELY pull the drive out because it is already 1 drive down out of 20 for half the files. A lot of times the IT guys will make a judgement call that a drive is acting funny or slightly off so they just &
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by brianwski 8y ago
> Do you have as well "backups"? Or is that in the hands of the customers/users? If you store data in Backblaze, there is no "backup" of that data. If Backblaze ever lost 4 drives simultaneously and could not re
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by brianwski 8y ago
> Comcast has 1TB/month data cap I have three suggestions, but I have only tried the second suggestion, so please do your own research before my bad advice costs you a lot of money. :-) 1) Comcast (at least in many places) allows y
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by brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so you should always view my answers skeptically. :-) > Color me skeptical that folks outside of the public cloud providers are going to be around in 10 years. Backblaze is now 12 years old, and we'r
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by brianwski 8y ago
> ten TBytes will take two months Backblaze "Best Practices" recommends you get fully backed up within 30 days, but honestly we won't be bothered and cut you off even if it takes 6 months to upload your whole backup. As l

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