For some time, I’ve been using BackBlaze B2 as my primary (though not exclusive) cloud backup solution. I would love to use TarSnap for everything, but it’s too expensive, though I do keep my top-tier backups ther. B2 has very straightforward pricing: $.005 per GB per month, and $.01 per GB download. So for example, […]
B2 or C2? That is the Question. That is the Quest.
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February 20, 2022 @ 6:12 pm, by raindog308Painless Removable Media Backups…to the Cloud!
Do you still use USB thumb drives? Flash or SD or MicroSD cards? Portable hard drives? Even in this age of ubiquitous cloud, there’s still a ton of bits and bytes being carried around in people’s backpacks, for a variety of reasons. IT folk need portable media for those crash-cart, no-network situations where they have […]
BackBlaze Goes Public – Are You Buying BLZE?
b2, backblaze, BLZE, cloud, cloud storage, market, nasdaq, stock, stock market, stonk November 12, 2021 @ 6:00 pm, by raindog308Cloud service provider BackBlaze went public on Thursday on NASDAQ (BLZE), selling 6.25 million shares for $100 million. They claim to have 500,000 customers. After a day of trading, the stock closed higher at $22.04 today. Looking at their financials, I was a bit disappointed. First, they are pulling in $53 million in revenue annually, […]
Backing Up Your VPS With b2 and rclone
b2, backblaze, backup, backupservice, backupvps, rclone, selfhostedbackup January 27, 2021 @ 4:35 am, by raindog308b2 is cloud storage from Backblaze. Like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Storage, it provides an API for storing files in the cloud and does so at a substantially cheaper price than its competitors. In this tutorial, we’ll show how you can use b2 for backing up your VPS. Understanding B2 Pricing There […]
