#BACKBLAZE PERSONAL FOR MAC OS#

#BACKBLAZE PERSONAL FOR MAC OS#

Summaryīackblaze offers a super affordable personal backup solution in the cloud a la Time Machine for Mac OS X. I shall write a separate blog post to analyze further. This would mean $50/computer/year.Įven more subtle, I think it would only make sense if the computers have data that is regularly being added, removed, or modified day-to-day, i.e. A quick break-even calculation - compared to Backblaze - shows that the Crashplan Family Plan would make sense if you had at least 3 computers that you were backing up. B2 was designed for developers and IT people requiring on-demand storage. B2 Cloud Storage (also referred to as B2), created only 5 years ago, represents the remaining 1/3 of the business and is the hypergrowth jewel. Upon arriving at a Backblaze datacenter, your data is assigned to one or more Storage Pods where it is stored encrypted. One interesting note, however, is that Crashplan offers a Family Plan for $149.99/year for 2-10 computers. Backblaze charges a flat fee of 7/month (or 70/year) for unlimited backup of personal computers. My first backup is underway - 427 GB of data, primarily media assets like videos, pictures, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Lightroom, and my Github repositories for software, websites, and other bits and bytes.īackblaze offers the best value-for-money personal backup solution compared to service offerings by Carbonite, Mozy, Crashplan, and iDrive. The critical data that I want to back up is not in a system folder anyway so these default settings are fine for me. I then installed the Backblaze Mac App to manage the automatic backups on my 27” Retina iMac.Īs expected, the application only backs up your personal folders under the /Users/ directory, while it excludes system folders by default like /bin and /Applications (and the App doesn’t allow you to back them up). I purchased a 2-year unlimited personal backup plan for $95. : Personal Backups to Free Your Mindīackblaze cloud storage is so cheap it’s a crime not to have it.

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