![]() When the six-months passed, I elected to pay for an entire year to comprehensively review. Having made use of Backblaze’s hard drive data in the past, I thought this would be a good occasion to assess their service and platform. About BackblazeĪs an IT professional, I am regularly called upon for my opinion on both personal and business services that need a reliable solution and accordingly, when I get the opportunity to try out a service, I like to take advantage of the chance and have personal experience with the product to make the best recommendations later.īackblaze claims to offer, “Never lose a photo, video, or file again,” “Cloud backup made easy and automatic,” and as a special offer, offered a six-month Backblaze trial included February 2017’s Humble Bundle. It will take approximately 18 minutes to read the entire article. If reading quickly, please go down the page to read the conclusion first and then any other sections after. However, those that do not wish to wait for the auto-update can manually check for updates using the app settings or download directly from the website.This article is a review and record of my unfortunate experience with Backblaze Personal Backup service, software, and support. The company will be slowly auto-updating current customers over the next few weeks. The current version of the app is now up on Backblaze's download page. The client is also more compliant with IPv6. "We've touched up the user interface to make it a bit more lively," as Pusin puts it. Lastly, the UI has seen some graphical improvements. Enterprise accounts run $50/year/computer, also with unlimited data and no throttling. Speaking of cost, standard personal accounts are $5/month or $50/year for unlimited storage, bandwidth and file size. Users who need more will pay about $0.005/GB upload and $0.02/GB download. However, B2 accounts do come with some limitations, mainly 10 GB/month of storage and 1 GB/day of downloads for free. With a Backblaze B2 account, users can share files via URL. He also notes that larger file sizes will be supported in the coming weeks. "This was a highly requested feature and we're stoked to get it implemented," said Pusin. They can now be recovered quickly and easily. Single files that are under 30 MB no longer have to be zipped up in a single file restore package. No more wondering if " 11.04.24.jpg" is the right picture. An image preview has been added so users can see if the image file they backed up is the one they want to retrieve or share. The rest of 5.0's enhancements improve the user experience when using the client app. This service costs between $99 and $189, but if the USB is returned to Backblaze within 30 days, the fee will be refunded. However, if a restore cannot be performed over the web, Backblaze will ship a USB flash drive from 128 GB up to 4 TB via FedEx to recover files. If a full restore is necessary, it can be performed fast and free through the client app. "This gives the restore interface a cleaner look and helps you navigate backup history if you need to roll back time."įinishing off the speed enhancements is the restore process which is now up to 10 times faster. ![]() "Hidden files are no longer displayed by default, but you can still show them with one click on the restore page," says company blog editor Yev Pusin. The developers have additionally cleaned up the browsing and restore interfaces. During internal testing, it has completed 50 GB backups in one hour.įile browsing has also been optimized and is now three times faster. The app by default analyzes users' network environments to determine the proper number of threads to ensure connections do not get choked. Speed can be manually throttled up to 20 backup threads but Backblaze suggests users let the client throttle speeds. The number of threads available for backing up data has also doubled. Other improvements include an image preview feature, the ability to download individual files from a backup, file sharing and a fresh new UI. "Rapid Access Release," as it has been dubbed, brings users faster backups and quicker file browsing. It comes with several improvements but the primary focus for this update was on speed. Today Backblaze announced the release of version 5.0 of its client app. ![]()
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