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• Backblaze B2 Backup

Backblaze, Inc. is a cloud storage and data backup company, founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman, Billy Ng, Nilay Patel, Brian Wilson, Tim Nufire, Damon Uyeda, and Casey Jones.^[1] Its two main products are their B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup services, targeted at both business and personal markets.

Products[edit]

Cloud Backup[edit]

Open Hyperbackup and go to relink and enter the credentials, select the bucket, then the backup. Enter the encryption password and get an error that I needed to log out of DSM and retry (odd error). Try the encryption key, no error, but nothing happens. CloudBerry Backup provides SMBs with an affordable and secure backup solution that works on all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Hyper-V, and VMware. CloudBerry Backup supports both local backups and cloud storage services like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage.

Backblaze's first product was its computer backup, offering users to back up their computer data continuously and automatically with a monthly subscription service. The service makes use of AES encryption for security, and uses data compression and bandwidth optimization to reduce upload and download times. Files that need to be restored can be delivered in the form of a digital download,^[2] on an external hard drive or flash drive.^[3] File versioning and history is available, however there is a cap to 30 days or an additional cost per month.

Backblaze B2 Storage[edit]

In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses. It directly competes with similar services, such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.^[4] In April 2018, Backblaze announced cloud computing partnerships^[5] that directly connect Backblaze's data centers with its partners, Packet and ServerCentral.

Technology[edit]

Data centers[edit]

Backblaze has four data centers; three are in the United States and one is in Europe. Two U.S. data centers are in Northern California near Sacramento, and one is in Phoenix, Arizona. Backblaze's data center in the European Union is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.^[6]

Redundancy[edit]

Backblaze B2 Hyperbackup

In order to increase redundancy, data uploaded onto Backblaze's data center is sharded into 17 data pieces and three parity shards for each file. Parity shard bits are computed by the Reed–Solomon error correction algorithm. The shards are stored in 20 different drives, each in a separate cabinet to increase resilience to a power loss to an entire cabinet, or other physically-based issue. Backblaze states that its 'Vault' architecture is designed with 99.999999999% annual durability.^[7]

Encryption[edit]

For Computer Backup, Backblaze uses a combination of AES and SSL encryption to protect user data. Data is stored in Backblaze storage using Reed-Solomon erasure coding^{[citation needed]} and encrypted with the user's private key, which is secured with the user's password and username. The default encryption of private keys is done server side, which is unlikely to protect against government subpoena or serious data breach. Users desiring additional security and privacy can use the optional private encryption key (PEK),^[8] but the PEK passphrase is sent to the server when it is initially set, and must be sent again to restore any data.^[9]

Encryption for their B2 storage is handled entirely by the user and client software to manage the stored data, making it immune to government subpoena or data breach and protecting the data during transfer and ultimate storage in Backblaze's data centers.

Storage Pod open design[edit]

In 2009 and 2011, the company released CAD drawings of the computer case used by the storage servers in its datacenters. With commercial off-the-shelf components such as x64 processors, disks, and motherboards, high-density storage servers can be built at a lower cost than commercial ones.^[10] The company has since made six iterations of the design over the years.

Backblaze Server Backup

References[edit]

1. ^'Backblaze Team'. Backblaze.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
2. ^'Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine's Finesse'. TechCrunch. 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2016-03-28.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
3. ^'Larger Longer Faster Better'. BackBlaze. Retrieved 24 February 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^'B2 Cloud Storage Pricing'. 2 January 2018.
5. ^'Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships'. Backblaze.com. Retrieved 2018-04-03.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'Backblaze opens data center in Amsterdam, retains same pricing as US'. TechRepublic.com. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
7. ^'Backblaze Durability is 99.999999999% — And Why It Doesn't Matter'. Backblaze.com. Retrieved 2018-07-17.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^'Online Backup Security & Encryption'. Backblaze. Retrieved 2016-03-23.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
9. ^'Security Question Round-up!'. Backblaze. 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2019-11-08.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^'Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets'. Blog.backblaze.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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B2 Backblaze

Backblaze B2 Hyper Backup Light

Why use CloudBacko when I can directly upload data to Backblaze B2?

Good question! First of all, Backblaze B2 is just a storage space and a simple tool so that you can manually upload data. However, how are you going to copy Office 365 data, VMware / Hyper-V guest virtual machines, Microsoft Exchange Database, Microsoft SQL Database to there automatically and as frequent as you want? CloudBacko is the answer.

Secondly, CloudBacko encrypts all the filenames and contents of your data on your local machine before sending to Backblaze. Besides, it encrypts everything with 256-bit truly randomized encrypting key. Thus, no easily hackable key such as '123', 'abc', etc. will be used. With this unique encryption methodology, no one, not even the people from Backblaze, is able to know what you have backed up.

Moreover, CloudBacko Pro and CloudBacko Lite can automate everything. Once set up, backup will be run automatically based on preset schedules. It also has many built-in features that handle the scheduling, retention and versioning, security, speed optimization, incremental backup, data integrity, reporting, etc.

All these are the values that CloudBacko provides so that you don't need your IT staff to write your own backup scripts. All the scripts, the functions and features you need are all included in CloudBacko. Check out all the features from here.

Why Backblaze B2

It is scalable at a very low cost, only a quarter of the price of Amazon S3. It's price is based on your actual usage - no minimums, tiers, or fine print. And their pricing applies to all regions. They also claim that their download fee is the lowest in the industry. Check out their website for more benefits.

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