- Backblaze offers unlimited online backups so you don't have to worry about picking which files to backup, just automatically backup all of your files. Following the layered backup steps above will mean you can lose your iPhone and still have everything you need backed up. If you get a new iPhone you can do a restore using iTunes in minutes.
- Backblaze clearly prioritizes simplifying the backup process over packing its service full of features and settings for you to manually control. Although this does result in a service that’s easy.
If you only have, say, 100 GB of data to back up, Backblaze will be an excellent choice for you. I did wedding photography for several years, and needed a reliable offsite backup for client photos. That meant a backup of about 1.5 terabytes. That's unusually large for these services.
I’ve been a Crashplan user, and I am extremely disappointed that Crashplan is getting out of the home market. I most likely will be moving to Backblaze, but I am disappointed they do not have a family plan like Crashplan had. However, this is only money.
My bigger concern is that they only keep your data for 30 days once it has been deleted from your computer. In my experience, it could take much longer than 30 days to discover inadvertent deletion. By contrast, Crashplan kept the latest versions of the file forever. I have local Time Machine backup that can go back in time and find the deletion, but having an infinite backup on the cloud was reassuring, and it appears that will be lost.
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A comment on the video: You asked if you could prioritize the backup so that your most important work can get backed up first, and that question went unanswered. Assuming that Backblaze allows you to specify drives and folders to backup, you should be able to do this manually. For example, when I last did a cloud backup (using Crashplan)… I only selected my documents folder initially, and it backed up in a couple of hours. Then I turned on my photos… and it backed up in about a week. Then I turned on my home generated videos… etc… each time enabling just the new class of data I wanted to backup in decreasing order of priority. Eventually, I just had my entire data being backed up. I suspect, but have not verified that this can be accomplished with Backblaze.
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