Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by atYevP on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:03PM (#11483097)

Yev from Backblaze here -> Absolutely. They key difference is backup vs. archive. Backblaze was designed as a backup solution, it's intended to be a 1:1 copy of your user data, and if your data set changes we change it on our end as well, with a 30-day history for accidental deletes. We need to reclaim that space to keep costs down, and we're not intended nor designed to be an archive (keeping data forever).

Backblaze B2 is designed differently and can be used as an archival system. The philosophies are different, but one of the reasons that we created it was to give folks the option of making actual archives they could keep in the cloud.

We hit the $5/month price-point by having our own server design, and by reclaiming space on occasion when data sets are removed. On the B2 side, since you're paying per GB, we can afford to keep that data for longer stretches. Hopefully Arq will integrate with B2 in the future and you'd be able to use their system to pick and choose what you want archived and have B2 as a possible repository.

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Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by statictype on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:24PM (#11485016)

Thanks for the clarification.

These pages make it clear how it works and it seems reasonable:

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665398-Backi...

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...

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Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by DenisM on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:43PM (#11483405)

I think your comparison is out of date [1], AWS S3 infrequent access has $0.0125 per GB now not $0.022+ that you have listed. Of course yours is still much better with $0.005 per GB.

Also, it does not look like you have any kind of consumer offering for it, as I have to contact sales to get anything at all. So there's really no point for Arq to even try adding support. I like your prices though.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html

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Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by atYevP on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @05:11PM (#11483616)

We don't write out the infrequent access pricing as it's not what we're competing with, also why we don't price out Nearline or Glacier, it's not at 1:1 for what we're trying to offer. The consumer offering is available from the docs: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/. You can use the web interface if you want, or tie in with CLIs/APIs. The sales channel is primarily for people that want to integrate it in to the apps that they are building. Hope that clears some things up!

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