On: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

[bloopernova]

Good lord it even supports BorgBackup.

Thank you very much!

[lukaslalinsky → bloopernova]

Be aware that it's just a single server. It's not replicated across multiple hosts like in the case of google drive. So you definitely want a backup of that if it's your primary copy.

[bloopernova → lukaslalinsky]

Good point, thank you.

It may actually be a good thing that it's not replicated. That forces me to really make sure I have a separate backup elsewhere.

[anotherhue → bloopernova]

US -> DE latency hurts though.

I used them when I was in europe but migrated away after I came stateside.

Not a problem for cold-storage/batch jobs of course.

[echoangle → anotherhue]

I’m assuming bloopernova is based in Europe, so latency should be fine. At least they asked for an European-based Hoster (although that could also theoretically be for privacy reasons).

[jillyboel → anotherhue]

you should still be able to saturate your bandwidth with poor latency

[anotherhue → jillyboel]

Not unless the protocol you use accounts for that. Smb for instance is tragic.

[jillyboel → anotherhue]

True, I was thinking of backup tools which tend to consider poor latency in their design.

[bloopernova → anotherhue]

Good to know, thank you!