Comments on: Backblaze Brings Its Dead Simple Online Backup To The Mac

By: susan

susan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:26:05 +0000

Oh! that’s great.

By: Dobi

Dobi — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:24:42 +0000

Backblaze sounds great but it lacks some important features for me, since I mostly backup external HDD, network drives and USB drives from both my Pc and Mac. Most providers don’t have these features but this wasn’t a problem for SafeCopy (www.safecopybackup.com). It allows me to do the above features plus I can share the same account for both my Mac and Pc. I’m very happy with it and it’s worth checking out.

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By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:49:48 +0000

I agree about Mozy support being useless. They sound like an automated support machine, asking you to repeat steps that were tried in a previous response. Try restoring large number of files with Mac Mozy, always fails for me. The problem with many of these online backups is they give a false sense of security unless the restore process is tested frequently and works for you.

By: Matt Jones

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:19:16 +0000

At least with Mozy, you can use your own encryption key, and encryption is done on your client, so they couldn’t figure out what you’re uploading even if they wanted to (and they couldn’t help you recover it if you forget your passphrase).

By: Matt Jones

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:12:04 +0000

I’ve had a pretty good experience with Mozy (on XP) – never had client instability, and upload is throttled to 1Mb/s (that 1000Kb/s or 125KB/s). This is a good bit faster than most consumer internet is capable of uploading, so most users wouldn’t notice it (I’m at a university, so unfortunately I do notice this bandwidth cap).

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:39:10 +0000

Does anyone ever stop and think that using online services like this to backup all of your data are too much of a personal liability?

I would use something this for photos specifically, but don’t know that I would trust “handing” them over to a company for safe keeping.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:18:55 +0000

hopefully services can get to this point. i dont think they’re there yet. and you’d have to be doing a lot more complex analysis of files like hash keys.

imagine what happens when you upload your PhD thesis paper called “Thesis.doc” and it overwrites that file because a similar file is available publicly.

It’s doable but way more complex.

By: Goodbye 2008. Hello 2009. | Backblaze Blog

Goodbye 2008. Hello 2009. | Backblaze Blog — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:58:41 +0000

[...] tirelessly to bring a Mac beta to market. And the attention it drew after being covered by TUAW, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Venture Beat, TheAppleBlog, and others flooded the service with requests, which we [...]

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:07:19 +0000

I use MyOtherDrive.com for Mac online backup. They give me the back up service I need plus 128-bit encryption for a fraction of the cost of most online backup sites – making them the value leader in my book. Combine their backup offering with public / private file sharing they offer, and you just can’t go wrong. VERY reliable upload / downloads!

By: Jan Rychter

Jan Rychter — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:26:38 +0000

Hopefully it will work. I’ve been fighting with Mozy on Mac and it is one of the more broken pieces of software I have seen. It simply doesn’t work reliably.

What’s worse, Mozy support is completely useless. They are stateless, they ask you to repeat silly steps again and again, they forget what has been said before and they seem to have no contact whatsoever with the developers. A complete waste of time.

I am having high hopes for Backblaze.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:42:40 +0000

I tried it for 3 days and just submitted this to BackBlaze Feedback.

1. I paid money to sign up for BackBlaze.
2. I canceled 3 days later.
3. I don’t want my money back.
4. Your UNinstalled process sucks. I am used to running AppZapper to nuke an application, but it did not find the appropriate files.
5. So, why did I uninstalled BB and cancel my service?
Because the initial backup process totally screwed up my Mac. It ate resources like nobody’s business.
Firefowe performance went into the toilet.
Dreamweaver was completely unusable.

Overall, a horrible experience.

By: flo

flo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:46:19 +0000

@comments above: How does backblaze give you more information than mozy? Also, it does allow you finetune, as it only allows to excluded folders, otherwise even in trial it just grabs all volumes (including external ones) and your whole homefolder. Also, there upload pipe seems to be pretty small. While mozy at least can use my full 2 mbit upload, backblaze’s speed test clocked somewhere at 0.8 …

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:12:03 +0000

Don, if only there were a company who cared about user data, who were experts in online storage, and knew a lot about Macs run by a team of dedicated wizards to bring us Mac users a real, honest to God Mac online back up solution. I’d be pretty damn smug about using such a service from such a company.

By: hesitations

hesitations — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:36:05 +0000

@mimi

No, not a comedian

My point is this: All of Josh’s technical ability equals $2 per month.

Backblaze is easy Cost=$5 per month

Josh’s technical solution=$3 per month

Josh has a probem. His education, training and experience make him $2 per month.

He is “blah” because his skills just got overwhelmed by the market.

Based on this application he is bankrupt and ruined.

By: Al Brown

Al Brown — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:45:50 +0000

Are any of these online backup services actually aware of what you’ve downloaded off of the web?

I mean, all the stuff you downloaded doesn’t actually need to be uploaded again does it?

If a file is publicly available when you download it, such services can just grab ONE copy for everybody and just track it when it changes.

Anyone know what the scoop is?

By: Mac got some backup with Backblaze « Invincible Tech

Mac got some backup with Backblaze « Invincible Tech — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:39:08 +0000

[...] coming to the Windows in September, the online storage service, Backblaze now comes to the Mac as private beta. The online storage facility lets users make backups of their data for a mere $5 a [...]

By: Mike B

Mike B — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:23:51 +0000

“We are currently full.

With the success of the Mac beta launch, we are briefly not accepting new customers.
We will open to more customers shortly. Sign up to be notified when we do.”

That’s TechCrunch hands doing …
O-o-ops – scalability issues …

By: Don MacAskill

Don MacAskill — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:55:39 +0000

Oh, I could easily change the file extension. But there’s no way 30GB -> 4GB easily.

By: Sunil Rajaraman

Sunil Rajaraman — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:46:49 +0000

I’m personally a loyal Elephant Drive user. They have a beta Mac product out, and it’s pretty damn good.

By: Backblaze launches Mac beta | Backblaze Blog

Backblaze launches Mac beta | Backblaze Blog — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:41:33 +0000

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By: Raghu

Raghu — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Trevin,

IDrive does block level updates; It also does mapped drive backups.

Raghu