And if you want more see more videos like this please look below. There is a cost to get the data into Glacier, but as a backup solution it's been fine.Kimberly: Hi, my name's Kim. It looks like the AWS Glacier cost is still about 20% less per GB-month than B2 presently.
It's been fast, reliable, and relatively cheap (though not really compared with the unlimited Backblaze or Crashplan consumer plans, but neither will work, or are available, for my Linux host). I imagine I'm not the target customer for the unlimited personal backup (although it is entirely personal data) as I have a significant amount of data stored on my home network (much more than the 1TB from your example), but I'm hoping that you might be able to help me understand the benefit (from a strictly data storage perspective) for the Backblaze B2 solution as compared with AWS Glacier.Īfter becoming one of the many CrashPlan refugees, I looked around for low-cost, reliable data backup solutions and landed with AWS Glacier. Thanks for the insight into the Backblaze business model. Any loans we take out are "secured by the actual equipment", kind of like how you can get a car loan because if you stop making loan payments they repossess the car. "Equipment financing" is completely normal in businesses like ours. This is an alternative solution to this "cash flow" problem which is we take out a bank loan to purchase the drives, then pay off the bank loan over a period of 2 years or 3 years.
#Contact backblaze support plus
A "yearly" customer loans Backblaze $50, which immediately means we can afford the 1 TByte drive for them in the first month for $27, plus most of ANOTHER 1 TByte hard drive for another customer who is paying monthly! But if you leave Backblaze, we can "repay the loan" you made to us because you also free up your hard drive space we can now sell to somebody else. The solution is instead of borrowing VC dollars or bank loan dollars, we borrow customer dollars against the future. Too many new customers would literally cause our company to go bankrupt, to be unable to purchase new drives. Backblaze MUST run at least a break even business or we die.
We don't have any magic deep pockets or VC funding, so this is "a problem". So Backblaze is negative $22 in the first month. The reason we give a slight discount to purchasing a year in advance is because it really helps Backblaze with the following "cash flow" problem: when a customer shows up with 1 TByte to backup, Backblaze has to buy 1 TByte of disk capacity for our datacenter IN THE FIRST MONTH which costs Backblaze about $27 even though the customer only pays Backblaze $5 in the first month (if you subscribe month to month). We only want to bill customers for a service they actually can use.
If you contact Backblaze support they can provide you a refund for your unused subscription. I have ~10 months still left in my Backblaze Personal Backup subscription More info here: You can choose one of the backup programs listed on the "Integrations" page, if you don't have any other preferences you might start with trying "Arq": I've switched to Linux and it doesn't work there.īackblaze has an amazing product for you called "B2" which was designed for Linux, runs on Linux, and all the servers you back up to are running Linux.
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