Convincing friends can be hard. Need a doggie to get them to use online backup?
Search Backed Up Files
A brand new Mac computer has approximately one million files. When you’re trying to recover that one document you need after mistakenly clicking delete, it may be a bit daunting to find. With Backblaze, you could always browse through your online backup directories to find your file. However, we’ve just introduced something to make it… Continue reading Search Backed Up Files
Backblaze Release 1.5.1 (Minor)
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: 10/25/10 Version: 1.5.1 Auto-Update: All Users Scriptable installer for mass deployment in organizations (Windows) Bug fix for Mac OS 10.4 to prevent messages in the… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5.1 (Minor)
Backblaze Presenting at FailCon ’10
FailCon takes place on Monday and if you haven’t signed up yet, I highly recommend you sign up now. (Use the code “20backblaze” to get 20% off your FailCon admission.) You can attend a conference every day in Silicon Valley. Many would be interesting, entertaining, and provide an opportunity to network. But FailCon is different.… Continue reading Backblaze Presenting at FailCon ’10
Backing Up Photos While Traveling: Feedback
Last week I wrote about the struggle I had backing up photos while on my honeymoon. I had a few thoughts for how I would solve the issue in the future, but did not find any ideal solutions and said I would update the blog post if anyone emailed me with good tips. With feedback… Continue reading Backing Up Photos While Traveling: Feedback
Backing Up Photos While Traveling
Two weeks ago I returned from my honeymoon—a trip to Kenya that included an amazing safari. While the trip was incredibly relaxing, I was nervous until a few days after I returned home. You see, since this was a honeymoon, my wife made a firm request: no laptop. Checking email and doing work could wait… Continue reading Backing Up Photos While Traveling
Scheduled Maintenance: Lessons Learned
Sorry and Thank You Last week we had a maintenance window that was scheduled for 12 hours. Instead, our core services were offline for a day and a half with some backups being throttled for an additional day. I am very sorry for any inconvenience that this caused. Rest assured, we take any disruptions in… Continue reading Scheduled Maintenance: Lessons Learned
Scheduled Maintenance: Thursday 9/23/10
UPDATE 6: All services are live! We are fully back online—new installs, trials, backups, purchases, and restores. We really appreciate how patient everyone has been with us during this time frame. Over the next couple days we will be digging in to everything that happened and working to figure out our lessons learned and how… Continue reading Scheduled Maintenance: Thursday 9/23/10
Backblaze Needs a New Office
Backblaze was founded in a small office where we planned to stay for six months. But we kept finding creative ways to cram more people in. Three years later…we’re bursting at the seams. So it’s time to move out of our humble abode and move to…well, a slightly larger humble abode. Do you have or… Continue reading Backblaze Needs a New Office
Backblaze Release 1.5.0.311 (Minor)
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: 9/2/10 Version: 1.5.0.311 Auto-Update: All Users Increased frequency of updating summaries in customer accounts (helps Transfer Backup State reflect accurate information). Minor security enhancements. On… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5.0.311 (Minor)
Backblaze Online Backup Almost Acquired: Breaking Down the Breakup
In this post, I’ll share why I am publicly sharing this, exactly what happened, the details of our acquisition process, how we are moving forward, and what we learned.
Broadband Speeds: Lies and Statistics
We love fast broadband speeds. Faster upload speeds mean faster backups of your data. Often we salivate over claims of 10Mbps+ blistering connections. However, periodically customers email us saying “I can’t seem to backup as fast as my internet connection implies.” Looking at the the customer’s internet connection, we see it’s slower than advertised—but it’s… Continue reading Broadband Speeds: Lies and Statistics
Backblaze Release 1.5: Back Up 9GB Files and Transfer Backup State
Backblaze has made a new release available. All users are scheduled to automatically upgrade over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 7/20/10 Version: 1.5.0 Auto-Update: All Users In addition to various minor fixes and enhancements, there are two key new features: 1. Backup of Individual Files up to… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5: Back Up 9GB Files and Transfer Backup State
Backblaze in Oil Paint
I spent a little time creating something we can hang on the wall that isn’t a Post-it Note or print outs. The white doggy, Tiffany, was one the early fans of Backblaze.
Seagate Ships 3TB Drives
Wow. Seagate just announced the world’s first 3TB drive. Called the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk, it’s big enough to hold about 1,000 full-length HD movies or one million digital photos or songs. It is also twice the size of the Seagate drives we used in the Backblaze Storage Pod when we published the design in… Continue reading Seagate Ships 3TB Drives
GigaOm Structure 2010: Cloud Computing Event Summary
For the third year in a row, Om Malik and the team put on a fantastic event about cloud computing last week. The GigaOm Structure 2010 event was bursting at the seams as people filled the main room to capacity (with a recurring plea by MC Joe Weiman asking people to try and find seats… Continue reading GigaOm Structure 2010: Cloud Computing Event Summary
Free iPhone 4 Wallpapers
Did you get your new iPhone 4 (or upgrade to iOS 4)? I created some iPhone 4 Wallpapers (640×960) you may enjoy. They’re free to use. How to Switch Your Wallpaper: Open this blog post on your iPhone. Click on the one image you like (including the one with the flame) to open it. Click… Continue reading Free iPhone 4 Wallpapers
Backblaze Release 1.0.7
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: 6/21/10 Version: 1.0.7 Auto-Update: All Users Protocol changes to add efficiency and reliability. Minor security enhancements. Rolls up changes from previous versions which were not… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.0.7