Anything longer than 12 hours to prepare a full restore and get it shipped to me seems too long to me.The issue with Time Machine and onlne backup If Backblaze was able to actually get our data back within a reasonable period, that would be close to perfect in my book. But the execution of the Arq client leaves a lot to be desired in terms of usability.īackup is super important. How come in 2017 it's still not a problem that anyone's solved? I really like the idea behind Arq, that you can backup to your own Amazon S3 or Amazon CloudDrive or Google Cloud account, and it's stored in an open format. I'm doing a full clone onto an external HD using the fantastic SuperDuper! And I'm using Arq.

I've attached the old Time Capsule to one of my eeros and am backing up to that. Needless to say, I've now canceled Backblaze and I'm looking into alternatives. It's going to be almost a month from I dropped off my laptop till I'm going to have all my data back. Okay, I guess it's better than losing those precious photos forever, but if you'r actually using your data to get work done, it's worthless. What good is a backup solution if it takes several weeks to get your data back? I can't think of how I'd do that, other than inserting 'sleep(2 days)' statements all over the code. Mind you, they're using hard drives, not tapes. Gathering my backup data from their storage pods and getting it into a form that they can get to me: Two full weeks.īeing an engineer, I've been thinking about how I would go about designing a storage system that has this kind of latency on retrieving data. Turns out, it took Backblaze a full 14 days, two weeks, to get a USB hard drive shipped to me with my data. It took them a week to fix with no communications, and when I got it back, it was completely wiped. Three weeks ago today, I dropped my Mac off with Apple to fix a stuck space bar. That was, until I actually needed my backup. I'd been using them together for a while, but doing both seemed unnecessary.

When I recently switched to an eero wifi system, I decided to drop Time Machine and go with just Backblaze. I've been using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for years, but it's not going to back you up when you're traveling, and Apple's Time Capsules are expensive and don't work terribly well. When I heard about Backblaze, I was excited.

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