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From iPhone to the family's Immich instance on a RAID array and from there to Backblaze
by darkwater · Sep 17, 2026
My org isn't a Backblaze customer but a Wasabi one. Wasabi offers the ability to replicate buckets to other zones at double the cost, of course. I would imagine Backblaze would…
by dessimus · Sep 17, 2026
As far as I'm aware Backblaze stores data only within a single datacenter (for a given region). This likely made sense in their original business model of being "offsite" copy o…
by everfrustrated · Sep 17, 2026
PBS's situation is entirely PBS fault. If you've got 50TB of data to backup it's either worth $300 to $400 a month to you to do it properly with a reputable vendor along with on…
by mrngld · Sep 17, 2026
It really is important to understand the failure modes that the durability model accounts for and what it doesn't. It only accounts for "normal" failures, like an HDD reaching e…
by gregates · Sep 17, 2026
That only matters if it happens literally at the same time as a failure of your primary storage. If they increase the price you can just close your account and move the backup t…
by Gigachad · Sep 17, 2026
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Backblaze, Inc. is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman and others. Its services are intended for both business and personal markets. Read more on Wikipedia