Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
by bimbashrestha on Sunday March 06, 2022 @02:31PM
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It's $9/computer so if you have another computer, you can't use the same 5 TB quota. I'm banking on most people having less than 5 tb per computer to backup. It's kind of like what Backblaze Personal does for their unlimited plan but slightly lower tier I suppose (since there is no way I could do unlimited).
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
by magicalhippo on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:36PM
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You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
by brianwski on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:37PM
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Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful:
https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif
You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think.
When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "stressful". :-) So I welcome another backup client developer to our club, and hope this can help them out.
Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
by magicalhippo on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:00PM
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They aren't that many, but I'm assuming he's starting up so not sure how many he can handle. I recall Crashplan having enough >10TB guys that they decided "unlimited" wasn't, and that was many years ago.
Personally I have 3TB of essential data, and about 10TB if I wanted to backup most of my computer.
Interesting graph though, thanks for sharing!
B2 is $5/tb, you are charging $9 for 5tb? How does that work? Do the old versions count towards the quota?