Year: 2013

Five Years and Four Billion Restored Files Later…

Backblaze was formed in 2007 and we went to work creating the online backup service. We kicked off the private beta in June 2008 and in September we released Backblaze 1.0, five short years ago. Through it all, Backblaze has been laser-focused on providing unlimited backup at $5/month. It wasn’t always easy, but we’ve managed… Continue reading Five Years and Four Billion Restored Files Later…

Asiana Air Crash Survivor’s Data Survives

Benjamin Levy with his data back on a Backblaze USB Flash Drive restore.

Editor’s note: On March 3, 2022, Backblaze ended the USB flash drive restore option. While we parted ways with USB flash drives, we continue to offer many options for restoring your files—explore ways to recover your data here. When Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco Airport on July 6th, we all watched in… Continue reading Asiana Air Crash Survivor’s Data Survives

How to Restore a Single File

Over the years, Backblaze’s Personal Backup service has helped our customers restore over three billion files. That’s a lot of photos, videos, documents, and more. While a majority of our data restores are to “Restore All My Data,” many of our customers have also restored a single file or a handful of files and folders.… Continue reading How to Restore a Single File

A Restory: When One File Is All You Need

For many people, genealogy is a nice hobby. They spend a few hours a week chasing down distant relatives and creating family trees. They entertain their family with stories of potential connections to famous and infamous people in the past and give out family history albums as presents. For some people, genealogy is a passion.… Continue reading A Restory: When One File Is All You Need

Backblaze Release 2.3.0: Performance Tuned for the Modern PC/Mac

Release Date: 7/11/13 Version: 2.3 Auto-Update: No A core tenet of the Backblaze philosophy is that backups have to work seamlessly in the background. As such, we’ve always focused on performance: providing unlimited bandwidth, automatic bandwidth management, and writing the applications natively on Windows and Mac in high-performance “C” code. In this latest release, we… Continue reading Backblaze Release 2.3.0: Performance Tuned for the Modern PC/Mac

Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? Here’s What We Know…

The leaked presentation about PRISM detailed the ability for the NSA to collect emails, photos, videos, and more from nine companies including: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple. There has been a tremendous amount of debate about whether PRISM allows “direct” access to these companies’ servers, somewhat limited access through some type of intermediate portal, or… Continue reading Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? Here’s What We Know…

Backblaze Did NOT Provide Any Data to NSA PRISM

Similar to the statements by Google, Facebook, Apple, and others, I will say that prior to Thursday’s news articles, none of us at Backblaze had heard of the NSA’s PRISM. Backblaze is not even included on the list of “current providers” in the leaked slide presentation. However, since some of our customers have written in… Continue reading Backblaze Did NOT Provide Any Data to NSA PRISM

Backblaze Release 2.2

Backblaze has a new version out today, and as we’re fond of saying, it’s the best build ever! Here’s the info: Release Date: 6/5/13 Version: 2.2 Auto-Update: No Windows ZIP file downloader now retries to download ZIP files regardless of how many times the network connection fails/restarts during the download. “Question Mark” button in the… Continue reading Backblaze Release 2.2

Flickr Announces 1TB of Photo Storage. Awesome!

Big news in the technology industry this week as Yahoo’s board authorized the purchase of Tumblr, and Flickr announced one terabyte of photo storage. One terabyte of storage. That’s a lot of photos. By their estimates over 500,000 of them, maybe even more, depending on the resolution and quality. We think this is great! Having… Continue reading Flickr Announces 1TB of Photo Storage. Awesome!

As Seen on Ellen

Sometimes when you first hear an idea you think, “Okay, that’s crazy.” That’s what happened when our PR folks came to us in marketing with the idea of having Backblaze be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It was a crazy idea. For those of you who know Backblaze, we have grown from a gleam in… Continue reading As Seen on Ellen

Unboxing the Japanese Retail Box!

Last year, Backblaze announced a partnership with Sourcenext to help spread online backup throughout Japan. After all, backing up your computer is a good idea, no matter where you live! This year, Sourcenext is releasing a retail box for us! Let’s take a look inside, shall we?

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