{"id":5851,"date":"2014-06-24T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:01:07","slug":"six-billion-files-restored-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/six-billion-files-restored-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Billion Files Restored and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funny thing about providing an online backup service<\/a> that is currently storing over 100 petabytes<\/a> of customer data\u2014sometimes people need their data back. In fact, nearly half (46%) of our customers restored one or more of their files in 2013 and that adds up. From when Backblaze first started until the end of May 2014, we have restored 6.27 billion files for our customers. Back in January 2014, we crossed over the five billion files restored mark, meaning we’ve restored over one billion files in the last four months alone\u2014busy, busy, busy.<\/p>\n

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That’s How Many Files Per Second?<\/h2>\n

In May, our busiest month so far, we restored files at a rate of 135 files per second. That\u2019s 135 photos, documents, songs, and so on returned back to their owner every second. That got us to wondering, what else happens in a second? Here are a few things we found that we thought were interesting:<\/p>\n