I love hearing stories about how our online backup service helped someone recover their data. This letter that our support team forwarded to me was an interesting example of a time Backblaze came in handy: My two year old son likes to listen to the same track from a certain CD every night before bed.… Continue reading Backblaze the Babysitter
Backblaze on EFactor Network
A few months ago Backblaze joined EFactor, a worldwide network of entrepreneurs. Many entrepreneurs are busily creating content, writing code, preparing business plans, etc.—all while working from a coffee shop or traveling back-and-forth from meetings. At Backblaze, we wanted to offer all of these entrepreneurs our online backup service in the hope that they don’t… Continue reading Backblaze on EFactor Network
Backblaze Release 1.5.2
Backblaze has made a new release available and all users are scheduled to be automatically upgraded over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 3/30/11 Version: 1.5.2 Auto-Update: All Users Enabled quick scan of large external drives so files appear quicker in restores (Windows) Fixed label on “Set Private… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5.2
Restore Downloader Apps Available
Restoring a 3MB file takes seconds. Restoring 400GB might be best done by ordering a USB drive FedEx’ed to you. However, a restore between 1GB and 100GB you may choose to download, but that can be painful with most web browsers—some simply cannot support downloads over 4GB, and most neither check to make sure the… Continue reading Restore Downloader Apps Available
Backing Up All Data Is Too Hard: Backblaze Switches to Backing Up Twitter
It’s no secret that providing online backup for all of the data on peoples’ computers takes a lot of hard drives. To be specific, four tons of drives show up every week to our data center to back up our customers’ school papers, birthday videos, and baby photos… So many baby photos. After a week… Continue reading Backing Up All Data Is Too Hard: Backblaze Switches to Backing Up Twitter
Fifth Time’s Still the Charm
Just shy of one year ago, my friend Vlad was getting married and told me Backblaze had saved him losing his mind the night before his wedding. A few days ago he and his wife Jamie posted this exchange on my Facebook page: Five times in one year? Cosmic rays? Aliens attacking the hard drives?… Continue reading Fifth Time’s Still the Charm
Five Years of Twitter in One Third of a Backblaze Storage Pod
Twitter turned five years old yesterday. The service now has 200 million users (including @backblaze) who post over one billion Tweets per day. One interesting tidbit they recently mentioned was that all of those billions and billions of Tweets compiled over the course of half a decade took a mere 20 terabytes of storage space!… Continue reading Five Years of Twitter in One Third of a Backblaze Storage Pod
18-Year-Old Catches Thief Using Backblaze
We hear from customers all the time who were able restore data using our online backup service after their laptop died or was stolen. Sometimes our customers even catch the thief using Backblaze such as this Digital 007 that wrote us a year ago. It this case, Mark Bao was the Digital 007 and caught… Continue reading 18-Year-Old Catches Thief Using Backblaze
Looking for an Excellent Java Engineer
We are growing quickly and are on a bit of a hiring binge. Last week we opened a customer support position that we have now filled, but are looking for yet another person to add to that team. Additionally, we are now looking for a fantastic Java engineer. You will work on the server side… Continue reading Looking for an Excellent Java Engineer
Cure for Cancer Stolen
No, I’m not kidding. Apparently two researchers that had been working on a cure for prostate cancer had all their data on a laptop. While they stopped quickly on the way to their lab, a thief stole the laptop out of their parked car. And, yes, I hate to say it: they had no backup.… Continue reading Cure for Cancer Stolen
51% of Americans Have Lost Digital Content
Deloitte published the results of its fifth “State of the Media Democracy,” which shares the results of a poll of about 2,000 American consumers. While there are a number of interesting results from the survey that demonstrate the increase in smartphones and continued viewing of TV and reading of magazines, here is a stat that… Continue reading 51% of Americans Have Lost Digital Content
Skinned My Mac
I love having an in-house designer. Got a new skin for my Mac: Want one? Download this Mac skin and use Uniqueskins to get one.
Looking for a Rockstar Support Representative
Are you passionate about helping people? Communicate perfectly in email? We may be looking for you! Backblaze needs a great support representative to join our team. We are looking for someone who will help users of our unlimited online backup with any questions they have. Customer Support Representative Experience in customer or technical support is… Continue reading Looking for a Rockstar Support Representative
Tweet for a Free Year of Backblaze
I bought one extra license to our unlimited backup service as a gift. Since practically everyone I know already uses Backblaze, I’m going to give it away. Tweet why you love Backblaze by noon tomorrow (Feb 11, 2011 California time) and include this link http://bit.ly/2fFTYR and we will randomly pick someone to get the license.… Continue reading Tweet for a Free Year of Backblaze
Backblaze Is Committed to Unlimited Backup
These last couple days there has been much discussion in the media about whether the days of unlimited backup are over. Our answer is: No. Backblaze Is Committed to Unlimited Backups There are one billion computers on this planet and less than 1% of them are backed up online. We provide an online backup service… Continue reading Backblaze Is Committed to Unlimited Backup
Hello, San Mateo! Our New Office Home
After almost four years in our original office in downtown Palo Alto, it was time to accept that we just couldn’t keep stuffing people in the space. Now, I’m thrilled to say that we have found and moved into a fantastic new office! Thank you to all that responded to our request for office suggestions.… Continue reading Hello, San Mateo! Our New Office Home
10 Petabytes Visualized
As we approached the end of 2010, our VP of Engineering sent an email: Backblaze crossed the 10 petabyte mark in data storage for our customers. While I see us constantly adding storage for our online backup service, it was one of those moments that made me think, “Wow, that’s a lot of storage.” 10… Continue reading 10 Petabytes Visualized
Backblaze Saves Christmas
Every day Backblaze restores data for over 100 people. Sometimes people share the stories of their data loss and recovery. This story was so good, though, I just had to share it outright. Enjoy. Yesterday my wife was working from home; feverishly trying to finish a document she needed done today. She had been up… Continue reading Backblaze Saves Christmas