BackBlaze - Business Options Available
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Aaron McCormack, former support SpiceLord, works there now. He was able to hook me up with a beta key.
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@Dashrender said:
How does recovery work? Pay a fee to have a drive mailed to you?
You can either download it or have a drive/flash driver overnighted to you for a fee. I had to do a restore once and it took a couple days for me to download everything. But this was when Verizon or whoever was holding Netflix data hostage, so I think Backblaze got caught up in that blockade so things are probably faster now.
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@Nic said:
Aaron McCormack, former support SpiceLord, works there now. He was able to hook me up with a beta key.
Why hasn't he gotten people from BB posting here yet? This would be a great forum for them.
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Dunno - I've pestered him a few times. They aren't on Spiceworks either, but that might be for cost. They do have a social media guy who posts on Twitter. I'll bug Aaron again now that there's a topic for their social guy to comment on.
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That is a pretty good price.
We've been using CrashPlan but it is $10 a month.
But we use that for the management capabilities of it. I wonder what kind of management BB does/has for this business segment.
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@BRRABill I've only used the home version for $5/month per computer. This page has info on the business version:
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For some reason the whole page didn't load the first time.
DAUYM ... there is more info!
Looks like it has central admin. Looks like CPP but much cheaper.
Hmmmm. Viva la endpoint backup, for those of us endpoint data fans. (Cough @scottalanmiller, LOL.)
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And their restore options are much cheaper than CPP.
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Hows BB compared to CrashPlan, which is my all time favorite
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@Ambarishrh said:
Hows BB compared to CrashPlan, which is my all time favorite
I haven't tried CrashPlan, but I've been very happy with BB. They send you regular reports on your backups, so you know if your machine stops backing up for some reason. Restores were easy, and you can go in and grab individual files as needed.
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@Ambarishrh said:
Hows BB compared to CrashPlan, which is my all time favorite
I really like CrashPlan Pro (or Business I think they call it now) but it looks like BB now offers the same thing for significantly cheaper.
@nic is the BB offering live? And hells yeah get them on here!
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@BRRABill yeah the business one is live. It's the cloud storage that's still in beta. I pinged @aaron so hopefully he'll come in and answer any questions.
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The cloud storage beta is here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
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Ah, so the business option isn't new. Got it.
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Is it true that the business version doesnt backup network drives?
http://katiefloyd.com/blog/yes-i-really-did-switch-to-backblaze-heres-whyAnd an extensive review from wirecutter about crashplan http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/
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@Ambarishrh said:
Is it true that the business version doesnt backup network drives?
http://katiefloyd.com/blog/yes-i-really-did-switch-to-backblaze-heres-whyAnd an extensive review from wirecutter about crashplan http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/
Not sure on that. I know they have a backup client you install, so that might be why the NAS wouldn't work.
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It's standard for these kinds of things to not back up mapped drives. Anything that prices by the "unit" can't really do that because it can only be used to violate the pay model.
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Crashplan has this https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Mounting_Networked_Storage_Or_NAS_Devices_For_Backup
And some more guides on other systems- https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Configuring/Beyond_The_Code_Unsupported_CrashPlan_Configurations
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Crashplan definitely backs up network drives.
In reviewing NAS boxes, I saw a lot of people who coded the NAS directly to use CrashPlan, or just simply mapped a drive and backed it up that way.
Though as I am sure @scottalanmiller would say, backing up a NAS or server through a mapped network drive on an endpoint probably isn't best practice.
