Year: 2010

Connecting Two Points: How My Face Unexpectedly Ended Up on TechCrunch

Yesterday a number of friends emailed me saying, “You’re on TechCrunch.” I quickly racked my brain, “Did we announce anything new yesterday…?” Then I looked and saw that what they actually meant more specifically was that my face was on TechCrunch, along with a wardrobe I was selling. Here’s the quick backstory: My wife wanted… Continue reading Connecting Two Points: How My Face Unexpectedly Ended Up on TechCrunch

Digital 007: Outwitting the Thief

Over the Thanksgiving weekend I noticed the following Tweet from @DigitalRoyalty: My friend’s laptop was stolen. He tracked the thief via @Backblaze for weeks & finally identified him on Facebook & Twitter. Digital 007. I know our online backup service saves user data every day, but physical theft recovery? That certainly caught my attention and… Continue reading Digital 007: Outwitting the Thief

Search Backed Up Files

A brand new Mac computer has approximately one million files. When you’re trying to recover that one document you need after mistakenly clicking delete, it may be a bit daunting to find. With Backblaze, you could always browse through your online backup directories to find your file. However, we’ve just introduced something to make it… Continue reading Search Backed Up Files

Backing Up Photos While Traveling: Feedback

Last week I wrote about the struggle I had backing up photos while on my honeymoon. I had a few thoughts for how I would solve the issue in the future, but did not find any ideal solutions and said I would update the blog post if anyone emailed me with good tips. With feedback… Continue reading Backing Up Photos While Traveling: Feedback

Backing Up Photos While Traveling

Two weeks ago I returned from my honeymoon—a trip to Kenya that included an amazing safari. While the trip was incredibly relaxing, I was nervous until a few days after I returned home. You see, since this was a honeymoon, my wife made a firm request: no laptop. Checking email and doing work could wait… Continue reading Backing Up Photos While Traveling

Scheduled Maintenance: Thursday 9/23/10

UPDATE 6: All services are live! We are fully back online—new installs, trials, backups, purchases, and restores. We really appreciate how patient everyone has been with us during this time frame. Over the next couple days we will be digging in to everything that happened and working to figure out our lessons learned and how… Continue reading Scheduled Maintenance: Thursday 9/23/10

Backblaze Release 1.5.0.311 (Minor)

Backblaze has made a new release available and all users are scheduled to be automatically upgraded over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 9/2/10 Version: 1.5.0.311 Auto-Update: All Users Increased frequency of updating summaries in customer accounts (helps Transfer Backup State reflect accurate information). Minor security enhancements. On… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5.0.311 (Minor)

Broadband Speeds: Lies and Statistics

We love fast broadband speeds. Faster upload speeds mean faster backups of your data. Often we salivate over claims of 10Mbps+ blistering connections. However, periodically customers email us saying “I can’t seem to backup as fast as my internet connection implies.” Looking at the the customer’s internet connection, we see it’s slower than advertised—but it’s… Continue reading Broadband Speeds: Lies and Statistics

Backblaze Release 1.5: Back Up 9GB Files and Transfer Backup State

Backblaze has made a new release available. All users are scheduled to automatically upgrade over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 7/20/10 Version: 1.5.0 Auto-Update: All Users In addition to various minor fixes and enhancements, there are two key new features: 1. Backup of Individual Files up to… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.5: Back Up 9GB Files and Transfer Backup State