It's still not even close to being a concise article. The only real metric there being discussed is simply age?

Maybe the SSDs moved 100x the data in their much shorter age so far? That would mean a lot and change the outcome significantly.

Here's some additional information, specifically using rclone into b2.

Same every time. Seagate is great because they are cheap, but only in numbers, you need failure protection such as raid.

@JaredBusch said in Synology pushing to Backblaze B2 at 50mbps:

Been going without fail since I disabled the pause.

Still going without fail since June.

@jmoore said in Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018:

@LilAng Like 20 years ago I thought they were the best.

Twenty years ago, they were.

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@DustinB3403 said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

Can I ask why you are protecting user devices though? Generally these have very little on them and through simple policy can everything be saved on your servers or cloud and thus don't need backup.

I would really like to do this. We have onedrive available for all of our users and I was thinking of coming up with some sort of system that just uses their onedrive as the primary source of their homefolder.

That's how I do it but we are using Nextcloud.

All users root folders under their user profile is linked to the actual folders in C:\Users\john.doe\Nextcloud{Desktop, Documents, etc...}. And the data is synced back to the Nextcloud server and that server is backed up.

How do you go about doing that? Editing the location of Desktop, Documents, etc... ?

Use Junction Points. Its like using symbolic links in Linux.

Oh... Duh, lol. Thanks.

I'm just trying to figure out how that would work if you have to do more than a few client machines at a time.

Something like this. It is not ready for prime time, but was my starting point last week when setting up a new desktop.

$User = Read-Host "Enter UserName" Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Desktop" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Desktop" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Desktop" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Documents" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Documents" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Documents" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Downloads" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Downloads" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Downloads" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Favorites" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Favorites" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Favorites" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Music" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Music" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Music" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Pictures" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Pictures" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Pictures" -Force Remove-Item -Path "C:\Users\$User\Videos" New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Users\$User" -Name "Videos" -Target "C:\Users\$User\Nextcloud\Videos" -Force

where would this be run from, the DC?

This would have to be run from the End-user's computer from the looks of it.

You are trying to screw with the end user's folders. they have to exist, and you have to have rights to them. neither of which are true of an admin account.

Are you automating this -- then How?

If you're not automating it, then why not just manually add the folders to the NextCloud client?

/sigh FFS...

@JaredBusch said in Crashplan vs Backblaze in 2018:

Something like this. It is not ready for prime time, but was my starting point last week when setting up a new desktop.

lol. I thought you were talking about the code...

Time to research a way to do that.

@scottalanmiller said in B2 Backup checkup:

@Emad-R said in B2 Backup checkup:

Then if you do this how you do you check that the Backups are good or you just the tar archive.

You'd untar them.

That is a full check. But without paying to download the file you just uploaded, you hash the file first and send the hash along with the upload. B2 will hash it when completed and verify that it matches your supplied hash. If it doesn’t, it asks it to reupload.

@DustinB3403 said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@matteo-nunziati That's pretty bad design if there is no automated way to backup to a remote blob provider or to push said backups to said outside provider. . .

That $399 is sounding incredibly reasonable now.

A main goal of any cloud service from major vendors is to lock in. Try to access a backup in GCP to export data: you can't.
I'm digging a bit to understand if the SQL backup in azure is accessible or managed by any infrastructure account which prevents users to access them directly...

BWT, 399 lifetime is good.

I'm impressed with their forthright business practices and openness with their platform right down to the DWGs. 🙂

I'm glad they've been publishing their stats. IIRC, they got a bit of grief from drive manufacturers when they started to publish their experiences?

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Aaron just decided to reduce his community profiles and remove his old stuff. He was never an official media rep for them, he just works as one of their sysadmins so I ping him when I see stuff that is relevant. Nothing awry at BackBlaze itself.

Well he's done it several times before so seems like normal for him.

He has? I've never seen him do anything like this ever. Or do you mean when he stopped working at SW? That's different, he changed jobs.

He's went through several different accounts on here as well as spiceworks before.

He did? Are you sure? I'm not aware of that ever happening.

Are you perhaps confusing him with @aaronstuder ?

Oh this isn't Aaron Studer?

No 🙂 This is Aaron that a lot of us know from his time in Spiceworks as a support engineer.

They have a sync command as well, that could be very handy 🙂

At this low of pricing, I doubt they will be giving any discounts.

@scottalanmiller said:

Three pods with RAIN

My servers would never forgive me for putting them in the RAIN... lol 😄

They often have good posts about drive reliability although they use consumer drives which are very different from the enterprise drives that most storage vendors ship.

On a side note, I worked at HP during the Thailand flooding and can tell you that the hard drive issues were real.  HD prices were increasing and we could not get the quantities we needed.  I saw shortages that impacted our ship first hand.

Given all these challenges it is no surprise that failure rates would go up for consumer drives.  The HD companies were struggling to fill orders and they were trying to do everything they could to increase volumes. It is likely that these pressures could lead to more aggressive testing and a potential decrease in quality. Consumer drives would likely be the ones that were most directly impacted since they are typically the lowest quality.