Storage Pod 1.0 allowed us to store one petabyte of data for about $81,000, today we’ve lowered that to about $35,000 with Storage Pod 6.0. We decided to build our own storage servers when it became apparent if we were to use the other solutions available, we’d have to charge a whole lot more money. Our goal was to charge $5/month for unlimited data storage for one computer. Over on the Backblaze blog, they recapped some of the history.īack in 2007, when we started Backblaze, there wasn’t a whole lot of affordable choices for storing large quantities of data. In September 2009, their red 4U storage server came equipped with 45 hard drives with 67 terabytes of storage for just $7,867. With Backblaze, you can download all of your files, or have them mailed to you on a USB drive. If you have a fire, flood, or theft, a local Time Machine backup might not be useable. Today, Backblaze has announced the tenth anniversary of the first release of the Backblaze Storage Pod.īackblaze offers unlimited backup (including attached USB drives) for only $6 per month. I’ve been a subscriber for many years, and I have no plans of leaving anytime soon.

While cloud-backups weren’t new to me when I came across them, having a native macOS app for a cloud-backup service was something I knew I wanted. Since you already have a fully rehydrated copy of your data at a remote site you can have services up and running very quickly.I’ve been a big fan of Backblaze for years now. Since you are really just using the remote host for backup verification in this scenario and SureBackup jobs don’t need to boot the whole environment you can run cheaper lower-spec hardware for your remote host/hosts or pay an IaaS provider for minimum spec and scale out in the event of a catastrophic disaster.

This gives you a 4-3-2 backup strategy that can be done for minimal cost. Run daily SureBackup jobs at remote site to verify backups are consistent and secondary environment can boot Last place I worked we did the following:īackup forever forward incremental to SOBR repo with local immutable disk for performance tier and offsite immutable S3 for capacity tier with copy enabledĪt remote site, run a replica from backup job restore the backup to remote host (storage on NAS) Assuming you’re fully virtualised run up some remote virtualisation host/s with a NAS or use an a IaaS provider.

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