Backblaze is now a Terraform provider

Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by pfranz on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:51AM (#26433893)

> Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime.

At least for the standard Backblaze service you can download for free. For a USB drive you float the cost of the drive (they reimburse you when you return it)--maybe you pay shipping?

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Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by tedivm on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:01PM (#26442471)

Downloading my full backup would use the entire month's quota on Comcast, forcing me to pay more money to my crappy ISP.

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Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by pfranz on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:33PM (#26443670)

Downloading rarely makes sense for a full restore, but is perfect for smaller restores or tests. Even if it didn't blow away your quota they only keep the packaged restores around for 7 days and I've found that difficult to restore a large amount of data with home Internet.

To restore it to a drive all you pay out of pocket is return shipping of the drive. The one time I had to use it I was slightly over the 30 days (I was waiting on a repair before I could restore the data) and it wasn't an issue.

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