
This blog will talk about Backblaze services highlights, details of their latest B2 cloud storage, and how it works with Backup Ninja in providing S3 compliant storage for simple and secured open source database backups. Recently they launched B2 cloud storage services offering S3 compatible storage services at ¼ the price and unlimited storage options. Business Backup service lets you backup from all devices in your infrastructure, including options to store Server, NAS, and centrally managed computers backups securely. Personal Backup service offers you unlimited backups for Mac or PC on the cloud with just $6 a month. Backblaze initially started its business in 2007 as a backup and storage provider for personal users then gradually moved its services for enterprise users. Is anyone else here using or considering Backblaze (or AWS) for their PRIMARY Veeam repo? One of my primary concerns in all of this is the immutability and the S3 object lock looks like a game changer.“ Over an Exabyte stored & 50+ billion files recovered ," a proud caption on the Backblaze homepage, has moved them up in comparison with the other leading cloud storage providers in the market. I do not think B2’s fireball is an option for us in this instance (object). With B2 that is not possible and we would be downloading TB’s of backup via Object storage. The cloud connect part is nice since we can get an external drive overnighted in the event of a major outage and he ability to spin up VM’s in the cloud. If all goes well in testing we might I might be pushing 20TB of storage via several customers using the Veeam capacity tier to replace the veeam cloud connect partner IN SOME instances. #2) How has reliability been with backblaze and object storage? #1) How has ingress and egress performance been with backblaze? I have a test 10GB account and it seems to work well. Wasabi does not yet support object lock so I am looking at BackBlaze.

However, Veeam 10 has added the ability to use S3 copy mode in their capacity tier as well as the support of immutable backups via S3 object lock. For smaller sites I use MSP360 with Wasabi which has been great as well. Basically, I have using Veeam at several of our customers and have been using a Veeam Cloud Connect partner which has really been great.

So I know has mentioned backblaze in the past and I am curious what everyone’s current opinion is of their B2 storage.
