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Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python by tiatia123 on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:20AM (#17406801)
"but you can (and will) still lose all your data in case the hardware fails. "

Can you elaborate this? I mean besides if the center burns down? They offer "snapshots". If the drive fails, they can not recreate the last snapshot?

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Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python by JosephRedfern on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:43AM (#17406892)
I suspect these are like ZFS snapshots -- they're not backed up, but allow you to restore your data to a previous point in time (like git history).
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Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python by chillydawg on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:07AM (#17407002)
I think that basically the guarantee exists as long as the raid array within the box is operating. There's no other safety.
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