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Is Backblaze a reliable provider?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve started pushing backups of media important to me (family pictures, video etc) to backblaze with client-side encryption.

However, are they a reliable storage provider? I can’t help but compare them to something like Amazon who likely has a better chance of maintaining my files but they are so expensive that I don’t even bother.

What do you think? Yes, I’ve heard of 3-2-1, however for now I only have backblaze and a local backup. I’m trying not to spend too much on this.

Thanks!

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Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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So… $18 a month? That’s a Netflix subscription homie.

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TheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.org
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And that’s more expensive than a lot of other providers

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Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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It’s more expensive than one other provider, iDrive. But iDrive doesnt provide nearly the same level of service. Back laze is the cheapest full featured B2 service on the market. If you are concerned about data integrity of your backups but you cannot afford $18 a month, then you cannot afford to have that much data.

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Findmysec@infosec.pubOP
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I admit that Storj is less expensive but it has egress costs which B2 + cloudflare doesn’t (the latter with a free account)

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Findmysec@infosec.pubOP
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That’s personal pictures, ripped media, documents, some sensitive information etc. Netflix can go to hell

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Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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I wasn’t saying to use Netflix that doesn’t even make sense. I was saying that’s the same price as a Netflix subscription…

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