Editor’s note: On March 3, 2022, Backblaze ended the USB flash drive restore option. While we parted ways with USB flash drives, we continue to offer many options for restoring your files—explore ways to recover your data here. DVDs were a fantastic storage medium, able to store an astounding 4.7GB of data for a few… Continue reading The DVD Is Dead. USB Flash Drive Restores Are Here.
Year: 2012
A Story from Inside Our Walls: Backblaze Saves a New Employee’s Data
While I wish that everyone would backup their data, the reality is for many people it takes a specific event to occur. (Unfortunately, that moment for most people is data loss.) For Kirk, that moment was starting to work at Backblaze. In a crazy coincidence, immediately after starting work and signing up with our online… Continue reading A Story from Inside Our Walls: Backblaze Saves a New Employee’s Data
Meet Kirk: Our New Director of Web Services at Backblaze
I’m excited to announce we have hired a Director of Web Services (a position which morphed just slightly from the original title of Sr. Systems Administrator). Below is a short interview with the latest addition to the Backblaze family: Kirk. Where are you originally from? Why did you move here? I was born in Washington… Continue reading Meet Kirk: Our New Director of Web Services at Backblaze
A Look Back at Our Favorite Tech and Moments from 2011
I can’t believe we’re already over a week into 2012. In the interest of listening to the quote “perfect is the enemy of good,” I’m publishing these thoughts on Backblaze in 2011 now rather than waiting until my hindsight is perfect, which may take another year or more. So, without further hesitation, here are a… Continue reading A Look Back at Our Favorite Tech and Moments from 2011