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Is Backblaze a reliable provider? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone,

I've started pushing backups of media important to me (family pictures, video etc) to backblaze with client-side encryption.

However, are they a reliable storage provider? I can't help but compare them to something like Amazon who likely has a better chance of maintaining my files but they are so expensive that I don't even bother.

What do you think? Yes, I've heard of 3-2-1, however for now I only have backblaze and a local backup. I'm trying not to spend too much on this.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have used them since januar 2019, and I don't have any complaints. I have only needed to restore backups once - it worked as well as could be expected.

Any issues with backups have always been on my side

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain the situation around you restoring a backup? Did backblaze lose your data?

AFAIK AWS replicates your data across buckets for reliability in case their datacentre goes down, which (from what I understand) is the cost of a whole another bucket with B2. That's my concern. I don't think Backblaze is going out of business any time soon but I'm afraid of data loss (I do have one local backup but my budget is unfortunately a bit tight right now - I'm going to have to pick and choose important bits from all of the data and add a second backup I guess)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

AWS has multiple teirs of storage options in s3, some replicate and some dont. by default those that do replicate do so in multiple availability zones, but not across regions. unless you turn on cross-region replication (CRR) which is an additional charge.

So, for example without CRR if your bucket is in us-east-1 and 1 availability zone goes down you can still access the data, but if all of us-east-1 is down, you cannot.