![]() ![]() Downloading the archive confirmed that most of the files were missing.Īs there had been no error message to suggest a problem, I attempted to restore a single file that was appearing on Backblaze but missing in the archive. Uncharacteristically quick, I received an e-mail indicating that the restore archive was ready to download, but I immediately noticed that the size of the archive was only 1.8 GB. To start restoring my disk’s files, I selected about 70 GB, and let the server to produce the archive. ![]() To restore data from the web on Backblaze, one selects folders to produce a non-compressed ZIP archive, up to 500 GB at a time. ![]() With a new hard drive ordered, I set off to the Backblaze website to get the restore process underway. Now with 1.5 TB of data failed, this was my occasion to try a full drive restore with Backblaze. I had noticed that the same failed disk contained some bad sectors just a few months ago, so this failure was not a shock. After a reboot, the disk no longer mounted, and I quickly realized it had failed completely. During the move, the transfer speed suddenly dropped, and a dreaded cyclic redundancy check error appeared. Disaster strikesĪt the end of January, I was moving data from one hard drive to another. Two of the disks are 500 GB SSDs and the others are HDDs of assorted sizes. The disks use NTFS, MBR, separate drive letters and are in a non-RAID configuration. The PC I have been running Backblaze on is using Windows 10, an i7-4790K non-overclocked CPU, 32 GB of RAM and six hard disks comprising 6 TB of data total. ![]() When the six-months passed, I elected to pay for an entire year to comprehensively review. Having made use of Backblaze’s hard drive data in the past, I thought this would be a good occasion to assess their service and platform. About BackblazeĪs an IT professional, I am regularly called upon for my opinion on both personal and business services that need a reliable solution and accordingly, when I get the opportunity to try out a service, I like to take advantage of the chance and have personal experience with the product to make the best recommendations later.īackblaze claims to offer, “Never lose a photo, video, or file again,” “Cloud backup made easy and automatic,” and as a special offer, offered a six-month Backblaze trial included February 2017’s Humble Bundle. It will take approximately 18 minutes to read the entire article. If reading quickly, please go down the page to read the conclusion first and then any other sections after. Maybe you could look at something with Amazon Glacier that could put some of your data in cold storage more inexpensively.Įdit: I thought this was in the Synology Reddit so I assumed your NAS was a Synology.This article is a review and record of my unfortunate experience with Backblaze Personal Backup service, software, and support. The bottom line is that offsite storage for that amount of data is going to be expensive. The only other alternative is to have another synology off site, maybe at a relative's house, and mirroring your NAS to another NAS offsite using HyperBackup or Mirroring. You really can't beat backblaze cost per GB for storage. You could backup to B2 using cloudsync, or I just happened to find this article today that looks like you can trick synology into using backblaze B2 on HyperBackup by making it think its an S3 bucket.īackblaze B2 on HyperBackup has been a LONG awaited feature that has never gotten implemented. It sounds like you were taking full advantage of the unlimited storage that Backblaze was giving you on a personal subscription. Now the only tier suitable to me I could find on the website was "NAS Cloud Backup" (B2) but that would increase my costs from 60$/year to 1440$/year which isn't justifiable for my personal data's off-site backup.ĭid I miss something or would this be the only way if I were to go NAS-only? It's possible there might be some way to circumvent that, but I don't really want to take that route. However, since I've grown tired of having to compromise on what data to put on the NAS and since I've recently gotten a hand on a bunch of NAS drives for free, I am looking into moving all of my data onto a single large NAS.Īs I understand it, NASs are (deliberately) not includeable in the "Personal Backup" at all. I also have a smaller NAS which houses some duplicates of that data. At home I currently have a 32TB RAID DAS attached to my Mac containing about 24TB of data which I backup with the "Personal Backup" (sorry Backblaze) for 60$/year and I absolutely love it. ![]()
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