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Re:Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture by kbenson on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @12:19PM (#9184831)
You get what you pay for. This product is very squarely aimed at people that want backup cheap (and there's nothing wrong with that). Should you be backing up your enterprise with this (and only this)? Probably not. Is it good enough as a backup of your family photos and videos? Probably, but it depends on your risk aversion level. Additionally, you can always throw another backup service into the mix and get the redundancy you want, at the appropriate cost.
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Re:Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture by sjs on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @01:11PM (#9185152)
Time Machine + SuperDuper! clone + Backblaze + Arq (to S3 Glacier). I'm ready for meteors, bring it on.
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Re:Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture by ghshephard on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:37PM (#9185911)
Data Backup 3 [1] + SuperDuper! clone + Crashplan + Arq (to S3 Glacier) + DropBox + Tarsnap (Subset) + Aperture Vaults.

But I would still prefer not to be hit by any Meteors.

I have a fondness for Tarsnap and Arq, but I find Data Backup 3 from ProsoftEngineering to be one of the best for doing local backups. At the end of a day, I just toss in a 64 GB USB Key (with FileVault Encryption), and no matter how much data I've created, it usually is less than 10 seconds for a full versioned backup. SuperDuper Clone about once every couple weeks.

I originally quit BackBlaze because it fired up my CPU to 100%, no matter how much time I spent trying to tweak it, but now I'm running into the same issue with CrashPlan which, after a couple years, has started constantly scanning my filesystem, forcing me to sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist, and then remembering to sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist before I go to bed to let it run overnight.

What is it about Crashplan not letting you just shutdown everything from within the application.

[1] http://www.prosofteng.com/databackup3/

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Re:Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture by atYevP on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:30PM (#9185837)
I like your style!
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