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Re:"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." by SeanKilleen on Monday January 20, 2014 @10:23PM (#7093240)
Could you elaborate? Same reasons in that you had slow or broken restorations?

Also curious: have you had to restore with CrashPlan, and if so, how has that process differed?

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Re:"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail." by magic5227 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:22PM (#7098057)
I had many issues with Backblaze over several years.

I found 1-2 times a year, when initiating a backup, the entire archive I had disappeared, as in, my computer would start to send all of my files all over again. This was very disconcerting.

I never liked seeing all files on an network drive disappear just because it was unplugged.

The final straw was when I attempted to restore a large archive, and saw the download speed was so slow, it would not finish before this restore was removed on Backblaze's servers.

Crashplan, has had zero issues over 2-3 years now. I've restored large files without issue, they store versions which I don't even need/want, and the desktop software works very well. Highly recommended.

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