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
Mavericks? We’re Ready!
Backblaze loves our Mac users and we’re guessing some of you have been waiting with bated breath for OS X Mavericks to be available for download. That’s why we’ve worked hard to make sure Backblaze is ready for OS X Mavericks. Apple released the developer version of OS X Mavericks back in June, and we… Continue reading Mavericks? We’re Ready!
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
Backblaze Halloween Contest
Want to win an iPad Mini or a Nexus 7? We’re having a scary video contest! Want the rules? Read below, and don’t forget to check out the example video at the bottom! Oh, and hurry! The contest ends October 29th! How to Enter the Contest: 1. Prepare a short, 30 seconds or less, video… Continue reading Backblaze Halloween Contest
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
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
Battery Powered Backups: It’s Your Choice
Laptops will make up more than half of the computers sold in 2013. With that in mind, we wanted to let you know about a great little feature in Backblaze’s Personal Backup that lets you choose whether or not we will back up the data from your laptop while it is on battery power. Making… Continue reading Battery Powered Backups: It’s Your Choice
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
The Survey Says: Apathy Is Winning
Why is Yev so sad? Is it because Backup Awareness Month is nearly over? No. You see, we just got back the results from our annual State of User Data Backup Survey and the results made him sad. Let me explain. Each year for the past six years, we’ve asked the folks at Harris Interactive… Continue reading The Survey Says: Apathy Is Winning
What Would You Like to Read on the Backblaze Blog?
The Backblaze Blog has been around for quite a while and we’d like to know what you think of it, and what you’d change about it, if anything. Thank you for your feedback, and we hope we can keep bringing you quality, entertaining, and informative content! Update: Thanks for all the feedback! We’ll be posting… Continue reading What Would You Like to Read on the Backblaze Blog?
Backblaze Did NOT Provide Any Data to NSA PRISM
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 Backblaze Did NOT Provide Any Data to NSA PRISM
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