Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
by jiofih on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:35PM
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You were probably a victim of their 30 day deletion policy. If for any reason (firewall, etc) you did not connect to the backup servers your data would just be purged without a grace period. For that reason I built my own backup sync using B2 directly instead of their backup service (and it’s a lot cheaper).
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We actually checked that- the day we went to get the laptop repaired we confirmed that it was active and backed up, and a week later the restore failed.
Backblaze eventually admitted that their dashboards aren't realtime, and they had a bug which was showing us (and their client) files that didn't exist.
It is? I avoided it on my Linux laptop for ages since I assumed their flat pricing was a lot cheaper.
Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
by sgerenser on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:41PM
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Depends entirely on how much data you have. If it’s less than 1TB then $.005/GB/month is less than $5/month. These days most people would blow past 1TB pretty easily so for most people unlimited Backblaze backup would be cheaper (if your on Mac or Windows where it is even an option).
Do people really blow past 1TB easily? Even with all my pictures I don't really get past that mark. Many people I know only have a laptop and all their data on there, it's rare to see laptops with more than 1TB capacity. So apart from people with a high amount of pictures or videos I wouldn't expect many to have more than 1TB backup needs.
Yeah, most is probably an overstatement. I know for me, between photos, videos, music, VM images, etc. I have way more than 1TB of data that I want to be backed up.