![]() I am surprised that 10 years later, still no one can apparently get online backup right. Silently not backing up data while explicitly stating that all data is backed up is about the biggest failure a backup program can have (short of deleting your local data!). There is no way I could have known that my data was not actually being backed up if I had not happened to check. The failure is that it told me that it backed up all my files, but in fact did not. The failure here is not that BackBlaze can not backup open files (although it really should). ![]() Outlook does keep the PST files open, so they will never be backed up by BackBlaze. Yet, clearly all my data was NOT backed up.Īn email to BackBlaze support got a swift reply stating…īackblaze cannot open files that are open, so if you are leaving your PST file open at all times Backblaze will never be able to back it up. But I think I could live with these annoyances if I had too.īut the real deal breaker came when I went to restore an older version of my Outlook PST file – which is probably the most important and most frequently updated local file on my system – and found that it was not in the BackBlaze backup at all.Ī search for “Outlook” in BackBlaze’s support system brings up a page that assures…įurther, the app’s “ What is being backed up link?” brings you to a page with the title “BackBlaze backs up all your data”. There is no way to tell it to not backup my C: drive, which on my machine is a small SSD boot drive with no data. Does “Backup Paused” mean that I paused the backup – or it paused itself for some reason? Occasionally it would popup a box saying “Subscription expired” and take me to web web page showing my non-expired subscription. There is no way to figure out what is going wrong when something goes wrong. The user interface is very simple – too simple in fact. Their pricing model is also very generous at $5/mo for unlimited size. ![]() It is nice to see that they think hard about this stuff. I *loved* their writeup on hard drive reliability. ![]() The new year is here, so i decided to try BackBlaze. I really want to find a rock solid backup so I never have to think about it again. A reboot sometimes fixes it, but not always. It occasionally just gets stuck and there is no obvious reason why. Crashplan has been working ok for me for the past year, but it still has some rough spots and flakes. ![]()
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