![]() ![]() ![]() But, while I can add the HP to my current Backblaze account, I would have to pay another $50/yr. It would be nice if I could just add that computer to current subscription. While 95% of my time is spent on my MacBook Pro (because I can run both OS X and Windows), I do have another HP laptop. Multiple Computer Support - Backblaze would be near perfect if it allowed multiple computer support on one subscription a la SpiderOak and others.Here are some items I think need improvement: If you need a bunch of your stuff urgently, and can't wait for download, you can also order, at extra cost, an overnight shipped DVD or USB drive of your data (see below why this could be an issue, though).Īll that said, I do not believe Backblaze is perfect. An email comes to you really quickly saying a zip file with all the files you chose is ready to be downloaded. Enter your private encryption key if you decided to use it. Restore - I tested restore just a little bit.With various degrees of throttling used in the 8 days, average 12 hours/day time it took me to backup 42.5 GB of data on my MacBook Pro, I average about 0.45 GB (450 MB) per hour. Backup speed - The throttling mechanism is very useful and seems to work.I am 7GB into that process, which, probably expectedly, is taking just a tad longer than the primary hard drive. Backblaze does not allow you to backup your Time Machine data (seems reasonable), but I am backing up about 42 GB of data. This drive is partitioned 3 ways, holding my Time Machine backups, SuperDuper backups and data that I just didn't want taking up space on my primary 120GB MacBook Pro drive (e.g., videos). Allows me to backup external drives - As I write this, I am backing up content on an external firewire drive connected to my MacBook Pro.(To be fair, you can find 10% discounts for SpiderOak and there are even some 20% discounts out there if you are resourceful) ![]() Backblaze is a legitimate player and the cost was right - especially after the 10% Chris Pirillo discount, which sealed the deal for me. And while I really believe SpiderOak is a player in this space, a lot of my decision, maybe sadly, was based upon cost. Like many people, I am doing my best to try to conserve some money, make appropriate purchase decisions. At retail, SpiderOak would have cost me $100/yr. Price - My choice came down to BackBlaze and SpiderOak.I can throttle my backup bandwidth choose file types and folders to exclude set my own encryption key and set basic scheduling options. But just because it is easy to use, doesn't mean they skimped on the functionality. An icon sits in my menu bar and allows me quick access to see what and how much is being backed up. Ease of Use / Function Offering Ratio Balance - It was very easy to set up the client on my MacBook Pro and get to backing up.Let me into the Mac beta trial - While very late into the party ( they publicly released for the Mac a week later), Backblaze gave me an invitation to try their Mac service before it went public.Carbonite, iDrive, Mozy, Safecopy also communicated with me satisfactorily as well. SpiderOak was also very good in its email communication with me. Good communication - Backblaze communicated with me via Twitter and answered my pre-sales questions via email.Obviously, the answers to these questions were "No" so here is why I went with Backblaze: Do I just go with the well-known leaders (by customer base), such as Mozy or Carbonite? Do I go with a provider that offers me a finite quantity of backup space per subscription, but allows me to backup unlimited computers, such as SpiderOak? I chose Backblaze as my online backup service provider for one year (possibly, longer). ![]()
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