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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] 21 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I've used backblaze b2 for almost 8 years now and it just works. I've never had any data lost by them in that time.

I just recently switched over to Storj.io as it a bit cheaper at only $4/TB as compared to B2 at $6/TB. Both are S3 compatible and work with just about every backup software out there. I have used Borg, Kopia and now Restic to do backups of important data. All 3 tools deduplicate all your data and reduces the amount of storage used. They also do encryption client side and are open source. They also have a built-in verification mechanism that checks the data is intact.

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

Do you use zfs? Something that I am unsure if is whether people are making ZFS backups to backblaze, or if they're backing up files directly.

Ie: Do I need the same filesystem as the source in order to recover the data?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Personally I'm using rclone with the crypt backend of top of the usual b2 remote

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