Backblaze online backup

[Wando64]

At 99$ yearly per workstation for unlimited backup storage and 1 year version retention, it seems too good to be true.

is any of you using this service?
How do you find it?

Thanks

 

[gilby101]

Most people love it. My testing was not positive:
No backup of extended attributes (Finder tags, etc),
Limited retention of old files,
Cumbersome recovery,
Not end to end encrypted.

 

[Wando64]

Most people love it. My testing was not positive:
No backup of extended attributes (Finder tags, etc),
Limited retention of old files,
Cumbersome recovery,
Not end to end encrypted.

Thanks.
They advertise it as being encrypted. Do they do the encryption on their servers?

 

[gilby101]

Do they do the encryption on their servers?

The encryption takes place on your computer. But recovery requires using a web interface and sending the password to BackBlaze so that the decryption can be done on BB's servers.

All my negatives I listed (and a few others) become positives for Arq Backup. But, as I said, many people love BB.

There are reports that unlimited is not really unlimited if you want to get into the 10s of TB. That is true of any personal/consumer backup product that offers unlimited.

 

[Wando64]

The encryption takes place on your computer. But recovery requires using a web interface and sending the password to BackBlaze so that the decryption can be done on BB's servers.

All my negatives I listed (and a few others) become positives for Arq Backup. But, as I said, many people love BB.

There are reports that unlimited is not really unlimited if you want to get into the 10s of TB. That is true of any personal/consumer backup product that offers unlimited.

5TB is plenty for me.
Recovery via web interface is a bit strange I must say.
I'll look into it a bit more.

Arq looks interesting but by the time I have paid for 5TB of cloud storage it would be considerably more expensive.