Re:Backblaze IPO
by argc on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:20AM
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This conversation makes me think you care about your users and inspired me to go look at pricing for personal laptop backup, and it appears that linux is not supported. Any plans to support it in the future? EDIT I might have not looked hard enough and there are potentially options out there, I just found https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664628-How-d...
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For many years, they were consistently and very diplomatically saying that they had no plans to offer Backblaze Personal Backup to Linux users, because Linux users would use a disproportionately large amount of storage and it wouldn't make sense to offer them a flat-rate alternative to the pay-per-GB B2 option.
e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/jsrqoz/personal_...
It seems that they may be changing their tune, at least as of a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/m3xynu/backblaze...
As a linux user, i have just setup my own backup solution to backblaze using Rclone and their S3 compatible storage.
Which is fine and all, but then you're paying per gb/month. Depending on how much you want to back up, it can cost you a lot more than the personal plan.