I’ve been a Crashplan user, and I am extremely disappointed that Crashplan is getting out of the home market. I most likely will be moving to Backblaze, but I am disappointed they do not have a family plan like Crashplan had. However, this is only money.

Backblaze Backup Review

• U0003Use Touch ID to access the photos and files you have stored with Backblaze. Or you can set Backblaze Mobile for iOS to require a log in each time – the choice it yours. Mac or PC Files u0003Backblaze Mobile for iOS let’s you access your files whether they were backed up to Backblaze from your Mac or your PC.
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• As I only needed to back up my main computer I went for the personal backup service. It costs $5 a month or $50 a year for unlimited backup. The thing to note is that Backblaze and similar services are not dedicated photographer’s backup services but complete computer backups.
• Backblaze will automatically back up all your files including documents, photos, music and movies.

Backblaze will automatically back up all your files including documents, photos, music and movies.

My bigger concern is that they only keep your data for 30 days once it has been deleted from your computer. In my experience, it could take much longer than 30 days to discover inadvertent deletion. By contrast, Crashplan kept the latest versions of the file forever. I have local Time Machine backup that can go back in time and find the deletion, but having an infinite backup on the cloud was reassuring, and it appears that will be lost.

A comment on the video: You asked if you could prioritize the backup so that your most important work can get backed up first, and that question went unanswered. Assuming that Backblaze allows you to specify drives and folders to backup, you should be able to do this manually. For example, when I last did a cloud backup (using Crashplan)… I only selected my documents folder initially, and it backed up in a couple of hours. Then I turned on my photos… and it backed up in about a week. Then I turned on my home generated videos… etc… each time enabling just the new class of data I wanted to backup in decreasing order of priority. Eventually, I just had my entire data being backed up. I suspect, but have not verified that this can be accomplished with Backblaze.

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/Jim