Hi everyone,

I’ve started pushing backups of media important to me (family pictures, video etc) to backblaze with client-side encryption.

However, are they a reliable storage provider? I can’t help but compare them to something like Amazon who likely has a better chance of maintaining my files but they are so expensive that I don’t even bother.

What do you think? Yes, I’ve heard of 3-2-1, however for now I only have backblaze and a local backup. I’m trying not to spend too much on this.

Thanks!

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

    That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      I’ve never really understood the logistics of how to do a test restore.

      Do you have to buy a 2nd computer?

      • ThetaDev@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        You dont need a second computer, just replace the drive with an empty one.

      • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        No, you can jusy restore to a second location…it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.

        I prefer backing up specific folders rather than “everything”, so it’s easier to test. (I’d just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)

        Let’s say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it’s been accidentally deleted… then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I just have a smaller dataset using the same settings, which I try to recover a couple of times/year.

        It’s not perfect as recovery exercises go … but it feels safe enough for me.

      • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.