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Meet Brian Beach: TiVo VP of R&D Joins as Backblaze Distinguished Engineer

I’m very excited to announce that Brian Beach has joined Backblaze to continue innovating on our cloud storage. Brian was a 15-year veteran of TiVo, having joined the company when there were just a handful of people and no commercial product. He helped architect and develop both the TiVo box that millions of customers have… Continue reading Meet Brian Beach: TiVo VP of R&D Joins as Backblaze Distinguished Engineer

Alas, Poor Stephen Is Dead. Or, What it Takes to be a Backblaze Hard Drive

Data Worthy Drives Backblaze stores over 70 petabytes of data for our customers. That data currently resides on 561 Backblaze Storage Pods containing 25,245 spinning hard drives. Each month we add another 15-20 Storage Pods with each Pod adding another 45 hard drives to our collection. Getting to be a hard drive in a Backblaze… Continue reading Alas, Poor Stephen Is Dead. Or, What it Takes to be a Backblaze Hard Drive

Meet Sona: Account Executive for Backblaze Business Backup

Sona has joined the Backblaze team as an Account Executive. Her job is to help organizations determine if Backblaze is a good fit for them. What attracted you to Backblaze? I worked with a handful of the founders at a previous company and watched them from day one as they grew Backblaze into the successful… Continue reading Meet Sona: Account Executive for Backblaze Business Backup

Computers Need Electricity

Yesterday (October 24, 2013) six cabinets in the Backblaze data center lost all electricity at the same moment (10:58 a.m.). No customer data was lost, but during the repair of the electrical circuits, the Pods containing some customer data were offline for the next few hours until 9:42 p.m. when the final Pod was brought back up… Continue reading Computers Need Electricity

Backblaze Mobile for iOS 7

Our iOS app just got a fresh coat of paint and a performance increase! What’s new: iOS 7-themed visual redesign Looks better on iPhone 5, 5S, and 5C Rewrote the app for faster performance Added options for file sharing, including sending via text messages Haven’t used the app before? The Backblaze Mobile app for iOS… Continue reading Backblaze Mobile for iOS 7

Recent Malware Forcing Victims to Pay for Data Retrieval

Lately, Backblaze has been seeing a few reports stating that a very specific type of ransomware, known as CryptoLocker, that takes control of a victim’s computer and holds it hostage until that victim pays to get it removed. It is known as ransomware because if Cryptolocker is not paid within a specific timeframe, it will… Continue reading Recent Malware Forcing Victims to Pay for Data Retrieval

MobileMe’s Complimentary iCloud Storage Is Shutting Down

Apple announced the closure of MobileMe on July 1st, 2012, hoping that its users would flock to the newly announced iCloud service. As part of the push to enhance iCloud usage, MobileMe users were given a complimentary 20GB iCloud storage plan if they moved over to the new service. Those plans are now expiring, and… Continue reading MobileMe’s Complimentary iCloud Storage Is Shutting Down

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…