I’ll pass.īackBlaze regular gives you unlimited data. I have 5TB of data stored at Backblaze, if I put that on their B2 service it would cost >$300/year instead of $60. ![]() Mike from PhotoKaz brought to attention the price difference between B2 and BackBlaze when the the amount of data starts pilling. This post is not sponsored, I put my money on software I believe in. Most clouds give you some data free, Backblaze B2 gives you 10GB just to test.Arq Backup allows you to trial for a full month.It’s knowing that if Amazon tomorrow goes bananas and drops price to $0.001 you can switch clouds with a simple click keeping the backup client you’re already familiar with. But it’s not even that what compels me to use it, it’s the freedom you gain. For me, personally, the cost of Arq will be offset in 6 months. Should I also go with Backblaze’s backup client? Definitely no! While I do appreciate what Backblaze has been doing from the very start, their blog is mandatory, switching clouds using Arq is as simple as pointing to another location. Your mileage will vary but my 200GB of digital trash are currently costing me $1/month on Backblaze B2. CPU values will obviously differ depending on your processor.Ĭrashplan for unlimited data charged $9/month.Īrq Backup has a single fee of $50 and then it depends. During backups Arq will go up to 100MB and take about 5% CPU where Crashplan will go up to 800MB and eat about 8%. What a nice surprise it was when I dug up resource usage: Compared to Crashplan, Arq Backup is minimal on resources. Your choice of cloud.Īrq Backup has all the fundamentals correct. It’s got everything on the alternatives with the fundamental difference of freeing you from a specific cloud. You see, 9 years ago Stefan Reitshamer started what is now known as Arq Backup, and it’s fundamentally the tool we were waiting for. Sometimes you’re forced to take an alternative path… Until I had to re-evaluate my options…Īnd it’s fortunate that sometimes you’re forced to take the other side of the pathway. Cloud-wise, for obvious reasons, it’s a walled-garden product there’s no compelling reason for Code42 to allow you to use the competition. While you could only backup to their cloud it offered a persuasive product in which you could send your data mostly everywhere – another drive in your computer, a friend’s machine across town or your own server on the other side of the Atlantic. Nothing feels safer though, than knowing your data is ten thousand miles away stored inside a former nuclear bunker by a team of dedicated experts.Ĭrashplan, against what the majority of the industry was doing in 2010, was unparalleled at this 3-2-1 backup with just a little configuration. Cloud Backup – the safest of them all, also the slowest depending on the amount of information it may take you a long time to download the full set of data (I’ve witnessed a friend cloud recover taking almost 9 days).I don’t know a single person who experienced both local and nearby backup failure but it may happen and if it does… Nearby Backup – a little slower as you’ll have to drive somewhere but fast enough to go live on the same day, prone to area-wide disasters like floods.I know a couple of people and at least one business who only had local backups and were left empty-handed after robberies. ![]() Local Backup – fastest to restore from but the first to disappear if instead of a broken hard drive you experience theft or a fire.3-2-1 backups are the recommended form of backup by the US-CERT Team and they excel at several levels: Backup to three simultaneous zones each progressively slower to restoreĬrashplan obviously allowed to backup to Code42’s Cloud but excelled in doing backups to multiple zones. That is, up until 2010 when I smashed head-first into Crashplan and started doing three-tier backups. ![]() It then evolved to an intricate solution involving downtime and Clonezilla and eventually to the ever-present rsync where I tried to hammer life into a differential backup. From early on, we’re talking 90’s, I mashed a home-brewed set of scripts that did the job. I’ve done them since I can remember, but I could never shake the “there has to be a better way”. I always had the feeling I was doing backups wrong. The disk is the single component of your computer that will definitely fail. ![]() For all those who are still riding the “Crashplan Home” wagon, you know that time is running out.
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