Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze The important thing to keep in mind is the 3 2 1 rule. 3 backups, on at least 2 separate media, 1 of which is offsite. Maybe that rule isn't as important for your gaming computer, but for example if you're running the next audiogames.net replacement, you'd better follow that rule to the letter. My production server may be a Linode, but it's got a backup partition, and backs up to B2. In about an hour I can have a copy on my local drive. Plus there's Linode's own backups should my paranoia increase. That server's host somehow catches fire and data loss is unavoidable, I can be back online in less than an hour. Considering I host stuff for other people on that box as well as my own projects, I don't play around. If you value your data, neither should you. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554850/#p554850 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze yup, backblaze here is just one thing, one of the two back ups I have. I read their blog and even they tell you about this online, on site and off site strategy, but this guy did not mention that either, I guess it was very convenient for his review. There is actually a speed cap that they put in place once I think you reach your first 200 or 300 gb or so, because most important things that the average user keeps or has are smaller files under this size limit like bank documents and pictures. That is even there in their help articles and I guess if you dialogue through it, they will lift that in place for you or something.Regarding a software I would really recommend for backing up to external media, its called syncBackI would dare to say that even the free version is good enough if you truly need that option to back up and if backing up is important to you. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554808/#p554808 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze @8The best I've found, taking accessibility into account, is Windows Backup (Windows 7). Go into backup settings, there's a button to get to the Windows 7 one, then you can set it up.Most of the other programs are buggy, inaccessible, or both. As far as I know it's all of them, but there might be a suitable one somewhere. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554608/#p554608 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Hi allNote that I didn't write this review and am just poasting it up here.Also, I didn't realize the review was out of date, sorry about that.Also, does anybody know windows software for automating backing up to external hard drives instead of doing it manually every time? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554581/#p554581 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze This review was done in 2018, so not exactly current. And also yeah, there's a lot of info actually missing from the blog post. Not surprised, considering his intention was to basically slag Backblaze. He's trying to back up 6 TB of data, but is he on a DSL link in small town Ohio? He doesn't say. I've backed up pretty near as much data as he has, multiple times, and have no issue. But I also test restore my backups on occasion just in case--hey, I'm paranoid. If he does, he didn't say so.Also: Friends don't let friends use the Backblaze downloader. Seriously, just don't. If you're on Windows, pay the $$$ for Filezilla Pro and use that instead. Restore to a B2 snapshot and away you go. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554566/#p554566 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze I thought about using it, however the cost put me off. That, plus already have hard-drives to back up to... and after trying out the free trial... to be honest I wasn't convinced. Tested the uploads with a pretty much empty mac vm, and while that went smoothly, my full drive is over 700gb, and that's assuming I had fast internet, plus other things. Personally, I have a multy backup strategy, one backup is through timemachine to a 4tb drive, and a secondary backup is done on a 2tb drive, which is done via superduper to make said backup bootable. Going back to the topic at hand though; i'm not saying its a bad service; its not; and if it works for some that's great, but it'll work for some as a backup option, and not for others. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554555/#p554555 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze I thought about using it, however the cost put me off. That, plus already have hard-drives to back up to... and after trying out the free trial... to be honest I wasn't convinced. Tested the uploads with a pretty much empty mac vm, and while that went smoothly, my full drive is over 700gb, and that's assuming I had fast internet, plus other things. Personally, I have a multy backup strategy, one backup is through timemachine to a 4tb drive, and a secondary backup is done on a 2tb drive, which is done via superduper to make said backup bootable. Going back to the topic at hand though; i'm not saying its a bad service; i'm not; but its just not for me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554555/#p554555 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze I thought about using it, however the cost put me off. That, plus already have hard-drives to back up to... and after trying out the free trial... to be honest I wasn't convinced, that, and the price... nope. Mind you i'm not saying its a bad service; i'm not; but its just not for me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554555/#p554555 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze I thought about using it, however the cost put me off. That, plus already have hard-drives to back up to... and after trying out the free trial... to be honest I wasn't convinced, that, and the price... nope. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554555/#p554555 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Yeah, I don't get why revealing one's netspeed is so taboo as far as reviews are concerned. It isn't like they're revealing how much is in their checking account or anything. And as an IT professional they should know more than anyone that that information is highly relevant when qualifying the perspective for a review, not to mention the fact that home internet is just not going to cut it. Could they handle their app better, sure, maybe. But their support was doing the best they could. Plus, there is literally no other company better. Honestly the reviewer's strategy of having multiple backup locations should go without saying, sadly it's too many people trusting one single backup solution that make reviews like this necessary in the first place. People who think buying 4 hard drives is insane when it damn well is far from that. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554552/#p554552 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Yeah, I don't get why revealing one's netspeed is so taboo as far as reviews are concerned. It isn't like they're revealing how much is in their checking account or anything. And as an IT professional they should know more than anyone that that information is highly relevant when qualifying the perspective for a review, not to mention the fact that home internet is just not going to cut it. Could they handle their app better, sure, maybe. But their support was doing the best they could. Plus, there is literally no other company better. Honestly the reviewer's strategy of having multiple backup locations should go without saying, sadly it's too many people trusting one single backup solution that make reviews like this necessary in the first place. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554552/#p554552 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Yeah, I don't get why revealing one's netspeed is so taboo as far as reviews are concerned. It isn't like they're revealing how much is in their checking account or anything. And as an IT professional they should know more than anyone that that information is highly relevant when qualifying the perspective for a review. Could they handle their app better, sure, maybe. But their support was doing the best they could. Plus, there is literally no other company better. Honestly the reviewer's strategy of having multiple backup locations should go without saying, sadly it's too many people trusting one single backup solution that make reviews like this necessary in the first place. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554552/#p554552 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Given the size of backblaze, I'm pretty sure he was just unlucky. Someone always will be, with backup software of that level of complexity. Maybe not, but if they lost data all the time they'd not be in business.Incremental backups are always going to have issues. The only thing that won't is copying to a local external hard drive, for some definition of won't that comes with a giant list of caveats anyway.Overall I'm not sure what to think of the post. I'd need a lot more evidence before I freaked out, and also Backblaze isn't the only thing in my backup strategy.It's worth noting one important detail, though. If you don't have incredibly good upload speed, something like Backblaze won't work for you. I'd not be surprised if part of the issue is that he couldn't re-upload his really big files. Most home internet doesn't give you enough upspeed for effective use of backblaze on audio and video files, being as it'll reupload the entire thing on every edit etc. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554536/#p554536 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze Even though this review may very well be valid, one of the things this reviewer fails to mention is his network speed. Even an IT professional is subject to the limitations of unpredictable residential internet unless they are smart enough to jury-rig a business wifi plan into their homes (can be done). So of course uploading 6tb of data over a bad plan is just asking for things to go wrong, though it is certainly better than not backing up at all and it is smart that he had multiple backups in offline locations. One of the major mistakes that Bitcasa made is that they pretty much begged for user trust by allowing people to send their old hard drives in for recycling, because they were so sure that they were the ultimate infinite storage platform. And look what happened to them. The point of any backup provider is not to put all your eggs in one basket. You still need to backup your backups and backup the backups of your backups. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554535/#p554535 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze this is interesting, its a bit disturbing honestly but I always used the trial fully before paying. IN that time, 2 tb of data were backed up successfully and this included my main drive and 2 external ones. and I had 3 more days to go for the trial No sudden speed drops or corruptions, no missing files, I have been using this without problems. However, its also hard to trust the tickets this guy provides as proof because he does emphasize some things and takes others, omits dates and so on. I was using carbonite before and to my absolute disappointment and dismay when I failed to retrieve just one file and could not do it was that I got a response back from them saying that I could not or should not use accented characters on my file names. I just quit... this was unacceptable, such an expensive service and what sent it crashing? my file names. I would not bother with renaming so many things anyway. That was never the case with backblaze.however, I do agree with their rather buggy software, hopefully this random data loss stuff does not happen anymore but I have been able to do many things with the back up and am mostly satisfied. Also, this year I paid them for two more so .. lol, I guess I am stuck unless some terrible thing happens. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554531/#p554531 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: A little information about Backblaze
Re: A little information about Backblaze this is interesting, its a bit disturbing honestly but I always used the trial fully before paying. IN that time, 2 tb of data were backed up sucessfully and I had 3 more days to go for the trial No sudden speed drops or corruptions, no missing files, I have been using this without problems. However, its also hard to trust the tickets this guy provides as proof because he does emphasize some things and takes others, omits dates and so on. I was using carbonite before and to my absolute disappointment and dismay when I failed to retrieve just one file and could not do it was that I got a response back from them saying that I could not or should not use accented characters on my file names. I just quit... this was unacceptable, such an expensive service and what sent it crashing? my file names. I would not bother with renaming so many things anyway. however, I do agree with their rather buggy software, hopefully this random data loss stuff does not happen anymore but I have been able to do many things with the back up and am mostly satisfied. Also, this year I paid them for two more so .. lol, I guess I am stuck unless some terrible thing happens. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/554531/#p554531 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
