Losing all of your photos forever. Paying iTunes a second time to buy all your music again. Pulling your hair out when your computer won’t boot. …If these reasons aren’t enough to backup your computer, we’re giving you one more: A free Apple iPad. Every computer that starts backing up in June will be entered… Continue reading Contest Announcement: Backblaze Is Giving Away Two Apple iPads
Join Us for Backup Awareness Month and Win Prizes This June
Has it been a year already? It feels like just yesterday I was writing about our last survey with Harris Interactive where we asked how often people backup their computers. Well, it’s June again and we re-ran the survey. Good news: Fewer people are not doing regular backups (92% now vs. 94% last year). Bad… Continue reading Join Us for Backup Awareness Month and Win Prizes This June
A Minor Update to Backblaze Release 1.0.6 with Stability Fixes
Backblaze has made a new release available. The release is very minor, thus users will not be automatically upgraded. A future release will include these items and automatically upgrade all users. Release Date: 6/10/10 Windows Version: 1.0.6.263 Mac Version: 1.0.6.264 Auto-Update: None Usability Slightly updated icons in Backblaze Preference Pane/Control Panel. Exclusions Added exclusions for… Continue reading A Minor Update to Backblaze Release 1.0.6 with Stability Fixes
A Customer Story: How Recovering Lost Files Saved a Marriage
Ok, maybe not quite the marriage…but at least the sanity leading up to it. My friend Vlad was planning his wedding recently and posted this on Facebook a couple days before the actual event: Vlad is grateful for Backblaze…phew I asked him what happened and wanted to share his reply: we’ve been going *nuts* over… Continue reading A Customer Story: How Recovering Lost Files Saved a Marriage
A Cautionary Tale for All IT Admins: Don’t Push That Button
As some of you noticed, Backblaze experienced an outage. I want to provide some detail on what happened and the current status. The Cause Backblaze stores your backed up data in a top-tier data center facility. Last night at 7:35 p.m., a security guard entered the facility. The door slammed, causing the protective covering to… Continue reading A Cautionary Tale for All IT Admins: Don’t Push That Button
What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.6
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: 3/1/10 Version: 1.0.6 Auto-Update: All Users Performance Improvements Reduces network traffic between client and Backblaze data center. Improved Install & Error Checking Robustness (Mac) Clearer… Continue reading What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.6
Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010: A Look Back at Our Year
Happy New Year! One year ago we said goodbye to 2008—we couldn’t have even imagined what 2009 would bring. So, now, we’ll take a look back at 2009 and pull out our crystal ball to take the slightest look ahead to 2010. Mac Love We entered 2009 with a private beta of our online backup… Continue reading Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010: A Look Back at Our Year
Backblaze Has Been Nominated as a Finalist in the TechCrunch Crunchie Awards
GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch have gotten together again to put on the Academy Awards of the tech industry—the Crunchies. Backblaze is honored to have been named a finalist in the Best Technology Achievement of 2009 category. Not sure if you have heard of the other finalists…one is a little startup called Google and the other… Continue reading Backblaze Has Been Nominated as a Finalist in the TechCrunch Crunchie Awards
The Best Storage Pod Company: VW Takes a Backblaze Storage Pod for a Ride
You may not be familiar with the name Crispin Porter + Bogusky, but you’re probably familiar with their work. The firm, which was named U.S. Agency of the Year by Adweek last year, created “The King” and “Whopper Freakout” campaigns for Burger King; the Windows Mojave, Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates, and “I’m a PC” campaigns for… Continue reading The Best Storage Pod Company: VW Takes a Backblaze Storage Pod for a Ride
What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.4
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: 12/4/09 Version: 1.0.4 Auto-Update: All Users All Binaries Are Signed (Windows) The Windows and Mac installers has always been signed and all Mac binaries have… Continue reading What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.4
The Future of the Data Center Is Green: Takeaways From the WiredRE Data Center Event
What do the following have in common: Google providing search, Coca-Cola operating its systems to track inventory, and Backblaze backing up your data? The computers that handle all of this live in data centers. And those data centers use power—lots of it. In the U.S. alone there are over 20,000 data centers—each of which houses… Continue reading The Future of the Data Center Is Green: Takeaways From the WiredRE Data Center Event
From Exabytes to Yottabytes: Why the NSA Might Want Backblaze Storage Pods
CrunchGear published that the National Security Agency (NSA) is forecasting it may need yottabytes of storage to keep all of its surveillance data by 2015. What is a yottabyte? 1000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte 1000 terabytes = 1 petabyte 1000 petabytes = 1 exabyte 1000 exabytes = 1 zettabyte 1000 zettabyte = 1 yottabyte In… Continue reading From Exabytes to Yottabytes: Why the NSA Might Want Backblaze Storage Pods
Introducing Backblaze for Business: Cloud Backup for Your Entire Company
Ever since Backblaze launched, providing incredibly easy, unlimited online backup for individual users, companies have said, “Hey, but we have laptops and desktops that need to be backed up too!” To help these companies, this week we launched Backblaze Business Backup, making available the same $50 per year per computer unlimited backup. What Is Backblaze… Continue reading Introducing Backblaze for Business: Cloud Backup for Your Entire Company
Announcing Full Backblaze Support for the New Windows 7 OS
Microsoft has been asking people to throw house parties for the launch of Windows 7. We threw our own… but rather than bags of Doritos, we racked stacks of hard drives. For those of you that did throw a Windows 7 house party, or just bought or upgraded to Windows 7, Backblaze fully supports the… Continue reading Announcing Full Backblaze Support for the New Windows 7 OS
User Builds “Extreme Media Server” Based on a Backblaze Storage Pod
Don Honabach has the honor of being the first person to successfully build his own Backblaze Storage Pod. (At least the first we know about.) With four servers running at home for media storage, Don was using a fair bit of power (and probably generating a lot of heat and noise and taking up space.)… Continue reading User Builds “Extreme Media Server” Based on a Backblaze Storage Pod
Snow Leopard Bug Deletes Data
Have you upgraded to Snow Leopard? Users on Apple’s forums are reporting a bug that deletes all user data if someone mistakenly logs into the “Guest” account. This issue was originally reported about a month ago on Cnet’s MacFixIt but today is being mentioned across the web as more people are being bitten by the… Continue reading Snow Leopard Bug Deletes Data
Backblaze Storage Pod: Tips and Tricks for Vendors
Last month’s blog post about building our Backblaze Storage Pods generated a ton of interest and many people are building their own Pods! Our post also generated a ton of questions so, below we answer the common ones and provide more details about where to get components. Detailed Backblaze Storage Pod Parts and Vendor List… Continue reading Backblaze Storage Pod: Tips and Tricks for Vendors
What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.3
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: 6/8/09 Windows Version: 1.0.3.209 Mac Version: 1.0.3.210 Auto-Update: All Users Enhanced Bandwidth Utilization Streamlined metadata uploads to reduce bandwidth usage and enhance backup speed. Enhanced… Continue reading What’s New in Backblaze Release 1.0.3