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!

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve used backblaze for years and regularly run recovery exercises. Never had a problem.

    However, to avoid any fears, I store remote backups in two locations (the other one being OVH, a large French cloud provider).

    My data retention regime:

    • Mirrored disks in local NAS.
    • Continually (every night) copy to Backblaze(US) and OVH (DE).
    • Once/year, copy all local NAS data to offline disks (ie disks that are plugged into a tray only during the copy) to avoid a file locking/encryption infection that could spread to the online files.