![]() ![]() Just to explain the situation, the Backblaze Personal Backup product was not priced at $5/month to attract the world's largest users. $5/mth definitely why I've signed up, if it was $70/mth or $5/month + $150 to download 15TB of files, then I would have probably thought about it more Just set aside one hour of time on a peaceful night and get it done. Yes that is an annoying task that might take you up to 1 hour of your life, but it is better than data loss. That means you have to find AT LEAST 30 individual groupings where each one is of 500 GBytes. If you are having troubles, please reach out to Backblaze support, they can help you. Get the total that has check boxes by it to add up to less than 7.5 TBytes, then order a USB restore drive. So carefully select SUB-FOLDERS and watch the "Total Selected for Restore" number change as you select and unselect folders. Most people don't have 15 TBytes in a single file, most people have 1 million files of 15 MBytes each. I don't think people are really aware of how difficult it is to restore on sign up. Just highlighting the timing of it, especially juxtaposed the other options - not the cost. $5/mth definitely why I've signed up, if it was $70/mth or $5/month + $150 to download 15TB of files, then I would have probably thought about it more. I can't, the web UI blocks that option past 8TB (Safari).ĭoes that mean I have to individually zip 500GB groupings at a time? Avoid this unless you are comfortable installing and playing with unfriendly software programs. But I cannot stress highly enough this is for advanced computer customers only. Or use a 3rd partly tool that understands B2. If you can get Python working on your computer, then you can use the Backblaze b2.py Python command line to download those files. It is as optional product priced at what it costs Backblaze to provide it.Ĥ) You can download those B2 Snapshots - but currently you cannot use the bzdownloader, so this step is for experts only. ![]() Just in case you think that is “gouging” - this is what it costs Backblaze - we are losing $70 / month when you use the Backblaze Personal Backup option with 15 TBytes! B2 is NOT overpriced or an up sell. This is all per minute pricing, so if you delete these after 15 days it would only be $37, or if you delete these after 7 days it is only $18, etc. The 7 days to cleanup is mostly for the thousands of customers trying the restore service out for free every day (which is also fine, but they don’t need the ZIP file to hang around for a month).įinally, if you are technically advanced, one option is as follows:ġ) Go to “view/restore files” in the web interfaceĢ) Prepare a “Save to B2” type of restore - you can put up to 10 TBytes in each of these, so you will need at least 2 and I recommend breaking it up even more (large ZIP files are unwieldy - you need a place to download them, and even more space to unpack them somewhere).ģ) Now that it is in B2 that copy will stay there as long as you pay Backblaze $5 / TByte / month - so in your case if you kept those for 30 days it will cost $75. When a customer is in a legitimate need of a restore we’re not concerned with getting those cleaned up. The bzdownloader can use 30 threads and can be really crazy blindingly fast like if you are on a Gbit connection get a full Gbit of performance (unlike uploading where your asymmetric connection may only have 20 Mbit/sec upload capacity).Īlso, by default ZIP file restores will get automatically get deleted after 7 days, but if you need more time to download them just contact Backblaze support and that time can EASILY be extended for you to have more time. Then use the bzdownloader to “choose” which of the ZIP files to download. We overnight FedEx the drives toward you for free, but you can use any shipping method to return them.Īnother thing I will mention is you can prepare multiple ZIP file restores at the same time in parallel. I put “free” in quotes because you have to pay the return postage, but that can be any cheap slow option you choose. These are $189 each if you want to keep the two 8 TByte USB drives, or “free” if you return the drives in a reasonable amount of time. As another person said, your best bet is probably two USB restore drives. ![]()
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