Comments on: 500 Petabytes and Counting https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: sreit https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325303 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:19:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325303 In reply to RealQuentin.

@RealQuentin I think he’s backing up using Arq to Backblaze’s B2 service, not using the Backblaze consumer backup service.

]]> By: YevP https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325282 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:54:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325282 In reply to Michael Bisbjerg.

Hi Michael – yes, there are lots of blinking lights! Here’s a somewhat recent post about it, and it links off to some previous ones -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/day-life-datacenter-part/.

]]> By: YevP https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325281 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:52:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325281 In reply to System7.

That can absolutely be the case – if you notice anything wrong with your system, we recommend you do a restore immediately, we’ll even ship you a hard drive w/ all the data on it so if you need to reinstall your operating system, your data can be waiting for you! Here’s some more info on the restore process -> https://www.backblaze.com/restore.html.

]]> By: Michael Bisbjerg https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325279 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:38:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325279 @YevP:disqus would it be possible to get a sneak peak into how Backblaze runs this entire thing ? Is there one of these neat OPS centers with screens and blinky lights everywhere? :)

For the more technical – any details on how this farm of servers is operated (network monitoring, configuration management, snmp or other agents, etc.. ) would be awesome.

]]> By: System7 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325276 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:49:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325276 I am a new Backblaze customer, coming from Crashplan for Home.
The only thing that could be improved is the retention time of deleted files: 30 days is a little bit short nowadays, where a ransomware could crypt your data a long time before becoming active.

]]> By: RealQuentin https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325264 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:44:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325264 In reply to YevP.

Oh man, I am not that good in English and it was a long post, but I will try again in some minutes :)

]]> By: YevP https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325263 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:41:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325263 In reply to RealQuentin.

Hey! I’m not seeing anything missing or hidden on my end, do you remember some of the questions? I see a thread with you in it below regarding Arq, but nothing removed!

]]> By: RealQuentin https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325262 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:39:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325262 Yev, please tell me, you did not removed my post with a lot of important questions, that would be pretty disappointing and sad. it is just some technical issue because of that I can not see my post, right?
tell me, it is just a temporary problem, please!

]]> By: YevP https://www.backblaze.com/blog/500-petabytes-and-counting/#comment-325261 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:11:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=80629#comment-325261 In reply to Jason.

Jason – that’s correct – as long as the data is on your computer we will keep a backup copy of it, if the data/drive is removed we’ll also remove our copy after 30 days. If you lose a drive we recommend that you create a restore as quickly as possible. We have a lot of different options (https://www.backblaze.com/restore.html) for restores, and you can even get a refund if you send us back the hard drive (if you choose to restore using that method).

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