{"id":69931,"date":"2016-12-06T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=69931"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:51:55","slug":"20-billion-files-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/20-billion-files-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Billion Files Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored.jpg\" alt=\"20-billion-files-restored\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-billion-files-restored-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\"> On September 1<sup>st<\/sup>, we asked you to predict when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backblaze<\/a> would reach our <a href=\"\/blog\/can-you-predict-when-backblaze-will-hit-20-billion-files-restored\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 billion files restored<\/a> mark. We had a ton of entrants!! Over two thousand people hazarded a guess. It is our pleasure to announce that we\u2019ve finally hit that milestone, and along with it, we\u2019re announcing the winners of our contest.<\/p>\n<p>Before we reveal the date and time that we crossed that threshold, we first want to point out that the closest guess was only off by 23 minutes. Second closest? 57 minutes. That\u2019s kind of remarkable. The 10 winners all pinpointed the exact date and the furthest winner was only four hours and six minutes off the mark, very impressive job!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lance (Bismarck, North Dakota)<\/li>\n<li>Bartosz (Warsaw, Poland)<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy (Evergreen, Colorado)<\/li>\n<li>Justin (Los Angeles, California)<\/li>\n<li>Andy (London, UK)<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey (Round Rock, Texas)<\/li>\n<li>Jose (Merida, Mexico)<\/li>\n<li>Maria (New York City, New York)<\/li>\n<li>Rizwan (Surrey, UK)<\/li>\n<li>Max (Howard Beach, New York)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>November 20, 2016, 10:57 a.m.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>That was the exact time when we restored the 20,000,000,000<sup>th<\/sup> file. That\u2019s lots of memories, documents, and projects saved. The amount of files per Backblaze restore varies due to our various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/restore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restore methods<\/a>. The most common use case for our restores is when folks forget one or two files and do small restores of just a folder or two.<\/p>\n<h3>Restore Fun Facts for a Typical Month<\/h3>\n<p><b>Where restores are created:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>96.3% of restores are done on the web.<\/li>\n<li>3.7% are done via our mobile apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Of all restores:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>97.8% are ZIP restores.<\/li>\n<li>1.7% are USB HD restores.<\/li>\n<li>0.5% are USB flash drive restores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The average size of restores:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ZIP restores (web &amp; mobile): 25GB.<\/li>\n<li>USB HD 1.1TB (1,100GB).<\/li>\n<li>USB flash 63GB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Based on the amount of data in ZIP file restores:<\/b><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width: 200px; text-align: center;\">Range in GB<\/th>\n<th>% of Restores<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">&lt; 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">54.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1-10<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">17.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">10-25<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">9.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">25-50<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">7.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">50-75<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">2.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">75-100<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">100-200<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">3.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">200-300<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">300-400<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">1.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">400-500<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">0.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">&gt; 500<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Backblaze was started with the goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-backup\/personal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preventing data loss<\/a>. Even though we\u2019re nearing 300PB of data stored, we consider our 20 billion files restored the benchmark that we\u2019re most proud of because it validates our ability to help our customers out when they need us most. Thank you for being loyal Backblaze fans, and while we always hope that folks won\u2019t need to create restores, we\u2019ll be here for you if you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 1st, we asked you to predict when Backblaze would reach our 20 billion files restored mark. We had a ton of entrants!! Over two thousand people hazarded a guess. It is our pleasure to announce that we\u2019ve finally hit that milestone, and along with it, we\u2019re announcing the winners of our contest. Before&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/20-billion-files-restored\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 Billion Files Restored<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":69981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>20 Billion Files Restored from the Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Backblaze was started with the goal of preventing data loss. 20 billion file restores later, we&#039;ve complied a few data points of interest. 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