I agree, and I would add to that: "as long as you also have a local source." That was my failure here. Had I backed up to a local source, the slow restore times / issues would be marginal at best. So there are two lessons from my perspective: Backblaze needs to get its restore scenarios fixed for folks like me, and I need to get my shit together as far as a back up strategy. Good lessons to be learned for all I think.