But heck, it might be worth it if every 6 months you just attach all your drives and let your computer run for 2 weeks to reset all the clocks? But for a large 12 TByte disk, simply reading every file off of the disk can literally take a couple days. Any changes and it will re-upload the file, but if the checksum matches -> zero bandwidth will be used. But the external drive has been gone so long, it WILL want to re-read every single last file on disk, compute a checksum, just to make sure it hasn't changed and has not been corrupted. In that case, Backblaze will not re-upload the data, because it already has a copy on the Backblaze servers as part of your backup. Ok, so what gets interesting is if the drive is unplugged for some number of days between 61 days and 365 days.
As long as you are on the year plan, and plug in the drives within the 60 day timeout for that plan and let Backblaze run for a good long time (let's say overnight) then it resets the clock. It isn't advertised widely, but with the year plan you get a little more time to plug in the drives with zero penalty - 60 days. I have about 6 that I rotate every month and it's legit work to keep them going. The size isn't important, it's the stupid USB technology has issues with more than 4 drives. We see a MUCH higher rate of happiness and success with 1 big Volume (from an operating system perspective) than with 12 individual drives. Like get an 8 drive bay appliance like a "Drobo 8D" or Synology "DS1819+" and fill it with 14 TByte or 16 TByte drives, and organize your data in folders inside of that. We'll even try to help! :-) My one really big piece of advice is to buy one big 86 TByte storage array instead of the hodge podge of small drives. In these crazy pandemic times, people are taking even more "us vs them" sides than before, and I just hope we all get through it.īackblaze will probably NOT complain to you That is so nice of you, and I appreciate it even more because we disagree on a few things. Backblaze doesn't want to waste the half the file that was already uploaded so it keeps going on the existing large file.Backblaze is run by some of the nicest people in the business.Įven though Brian and I have some serious personal (read political) viewpoints. There is one corner case where at the moment you clicked "Pause Backup" you were half way through uploading a very large file, Backblaze wants to complete that file FIRST before uploading the small files. The way to get Backblaze to pick up the smaller files again is to click "Pause Backup" (which ends the "backup session"), wait at least 20 seconds for Backblaze to "settle", then click "Backup Now" once (not twice or three times) and a new "backup session" will begin and it will pickup the new small files. However, if you are in the middle of a 5 day upload of 150 GBytes of video, by default Backblaze won't "insert" the smaller files that appear. If you are fully caught up, and Backblaze says "Remaining Files: 0 files / 0 KB", then a "backup session" starts about once per hour and will correctly pickup your smallest files first. The "small files first" priority order is set at the beginning of a "backup session". Will the small file keep getting backed up hourly with top priority while the big ones are uploading over weeks on 2nd priority?
#Backblaze backup will take 912 days code#
I saw stuff about Backblaze uploading small files first, but I'm not clear on whether this is when it does its initial scan, or if it ALWAYS prioritizes a small file that just appeared or just changed, even if it's in the middle of uploading a bunch of chonky bois.ĭisclaimer: I work at Backblaze and wrote the code that prioritizes small files first. Is that how it works? Or can I make it work that way?
#Backblaze backup will take 912 days full#
So if I'm working on a 30mb Premiere or After Effects project file all day every day, I want that file to always be up to date in the Backblaze cloud backup as I keep changing it, even if Backblaze is also slowly chipping away at a folder full of 10gb files I just added, and will be uploading those for the next three weeks.
(Those big video files are usually already backed up offsite somewhere).
I'd love to get this data backed up eventually so I don't want to exclude it from my backup file selection, but I want my much smaller and more important project files to back up first and keep backing up as I change them.
I work in film/video, and I have a tendency to dump large amounts of video on my drives out of nowhere. I'm migrating over to Backblaze Personal from Crashplan right now, after one too many sketchy incidents.
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