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Starting with a 1.0 or 1.5 scare me because thereĪre too many assumptions in them, not paranoidĮnough. Might run flawlessly for a decade on a computer,īut some of those early versions like anything Of Backblaze (2.3.1 and later) is quite stable and I really really think that the most modern version Nope! If customersĪre computer beginners they tend to behave nicely,Īnd the most advanced customers are very careful,īut there is this crazy middle ground who knowĮnough to be dangerous to themselves. The Backblaze internal data structures sitting Solution:Ĥ) assumption: customers are sane and won't "edit" Wrong: WAY MORE OFTEN than the file systemĪre undetected silent data corruption. I guess saving $5 is more important than dataģ) assumption: the HTTP posts either work or fail. I think there is a reason servers run ECC RAM,Īnd I'm confused why many laptops choose not to. Wrong, it can throw randomīits, undetected unless Backblaze keeps itsĢ) assumption: laptop RAM works reliably. Start that aren't true and the MODERN Backblazeġ) assumption: your disk on your laptop will reliably
#BACKBLAZE SUBSCRIPTION PRICING PERSONAL SOFTWARE#
Software is how many assumptions I made at the One of the things I've been amazed at doing backup I'm off in my corner watching logs andĮmailing the random old customer, they didn't know I Saw your tweet go by, it made everybody in our office Go ahead, and one of our marketing guys (Yev) already > would you mind if I published your email publicly? The computer is no longer actually performing fresh backups No worries, the most important part is that you are aware > Would you be amenable to holding off on deleting the backup It's hard getting through the email marketing overload. Hi Robbie, thanks for getting back to me! He responded to my questions in a lengthy email, which I'll paste again here because I had the foresight to ask in advance for future permission to post publicly. Maybe they would have! We'll never know, because I responded to this email right away. Yes, they could have proactively canceled my bill. He emailed me because the version running on that computer was considered so unstable as to be unreliable. If you have any questions, feel free to contact meĬTO, already had other (newer) computers being backed up, and this was a courtesy email to tell me I had failed to stop paying for monthly backups for a computer I had not opened (and thus synced) for years.
#BACKBLAZE SUBSCRIPTION PRICING PERSONAL HOW TO#
(I can provide instructions on how to cancel your Machine's backup and all of the files in the backup,Īnd you will be paying for an unused license. (Will take less than 5 seconds, totally free,Ģ) Do nothing -> in 7 more days I will delete that
#BACKBLAZE SUBSCRIPTION PRICING PERSONAL INSTALL#
Just visit our homepageĪnd download it and install right over the top of
#BACKBLAZE SUBSCRIPTION PRICING PERSONAL MAC OS X#
You are paying for a service you are not using.ġ) Upgrade your Mac OS X 10.5 computer called "rlmmbp" NO LONGER WORKS (too old, needs updating). You have the very very last computer on earth runningĪn ancient version of Backblaze (version 1.5.2.390) that This is NOT an automated email, I'm typing this live. Hi Robbie (first name guessed from email address). Shortly thereafter I received the following email: In 2013 I booted up a dormant 2006 Macbook to prep for lending to a friend. We just have to set really good reminders so we don't forget to plug it back in.Apropos of nothing, I'll share one of the reasons why I've been a loyal customer since 2010.
We have had a slight issue w/ backing up our harddrive because we travel to different venues and use that same harddrive for our video footage. For a small non-profit we were so happy (and able to sleep better at night) knowing if our computer crashed we would be safe and able to keep going.
Most platforms I had researched either had size limits or cost much more. Gone are the days when we would plug in a harddrive for back up and were lucky to remember to do it once a month.įirst of all you just can't beat their price for this type of automatic back up system. The other benefit is everything runs in the background automatically. Now when we have a staff member leave we have them condense their files and transfer it to my computer as the Operations Director and I can make sure they are backed up and as needed given to new staff when the time comes.
#BACKBLAZE SUBSCRIPTION PRICING PERSONAL MANUALS#
This was a huge loss of time having to rewrite manuals and operating documents. When in fact the files were lost because they were the original author. The biggest problem Backblaze solved was that when we had previously used another company for backing up files (which was a more cloud based system) we lost files when a staff member deleted files thinking our main account was linked to them.