So I was thinking of getting a cloud backup service, and I tried Backblaze's free trial month. The program they give has quite a small footprint, you basically just install it and forget about it. Anyway, so my trial ran out, but they give 30 days for you to make your decision and they keep whatever you've backed up to their servers for those 30 days. So, I updated my Windows 10 and I have a habit of using Disk Cleanup, and without checking, I just cleaned my disk. To my horror, my Downloads folder had been wiped clean. Because Micro(and)soft thought its a good idea to leave the Downloads folder at checked by default on disk cleanup.
I thought I'd lost my Downloads but then I thought about my Backblaze backup. Lo and behold, it had uploaded my complete Downloads folder, so I selected the folder to be restored, and within minutes it prepared a download for me and everything's back to normal now. This tempted me to pay for the $5/month for Backblaze personal backup plan.
Its $5/month for unlimited space. But only for one machine, for additional machines you pay $5/month/machine. Everything would be backed up, but files are only maintained for 30 days if the computer connects to backblaze's servers. If the computer doesn't connect to backblaze's servers, the files are maintained for a maximum of 6 months.
Also, I know about cloud storage, what I'm looking for is cloud backup, where I don't have to specify directories or anything, it just backs up whatever it finds (mostly). For longer term archiving, Backblaze has B2 storage, which charges you per upload/delete/download per GB. The first 10GB of uploads are free, and 1 GB of downloads per day are free from that platform.
Why I am double minded about all this? Well, they state in their agreement that if you want to stop your subscription (i.e. taking your credit card off of your Backblaze account), you need to delete all the backups in your account before you can do that. Do you or have you guys use(d) any cloud backup services? Any idea about Backblaze? I am thinking about this because I have 4 hard drives and I'm worried (GOD FORBID!) at least one of them would start to fail any time, so I should have a synchronized backup of my stuff.
EDIT: GUYS this is not a sponsored post, I'm genuinely asking if this is worth $5/month or if I can get something else/better than this?
I thought I'd lost my Downloads but then I thought about my Backblaze backup. Lo and behold, it had uploaded my complete Downloads folder, so I selected the folder to be restored, and within minutes it prepared a download for me and everything's back to normal now. This tempted me to pay for the $5/month for Backblaze personal backup plan.
Its $5/month for unlimited space. But only for one machine, for additional machines you pay $5/month/machine. Everything would be backed up, but files are only maintained for 30 days if the computer connects to backblaze's servers. If the computer doesn't connect to backblaze's servers, the files are maintained for a maximum of 6 months.
Also, I know about cloud storage, what I'm looking for is cloud backup, where I don't have to specify directories or anything, it just backs up whatever it finds (mostly). For longer term archiving, Backblaze has B2 storage, which charges you per upload/delete/download per GB. The first 10GB of uploads are free, and 1 GB of downloads per day are free from that platform.
Why I am double minded about all this? Well, they state in their agreement that if you want to stop your subscription (i.e. taking your credit card off of your Backblaze account), you need to delete all the backups in your account before you can do that. Do you or have you guys use(d) any cloud backup services? Any idea about Backblaze? I am thinking about this because I have 4 hard drives and I'm worried (GOD FORBID!) at least one of them would start to fail any time, so I should have a synchronized backup of my stuff.
EDIT: GUYS this is not a sponsored post, I'm genuinely asking if this is worth $5/month or if I can get something else/better than this?
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