Quick Maintenance at 2 p.m. PDT

Our Backblaze Personal Backup service will have a 30 minute maintenance at 2 p.m. PDT today (Tuesday 3/13/12). This is a slight finish up after last week’s maintenance.

During this maintenance, some parts of our service will be affected:

  • Restores and access to My Account will be unavailable.
  • Creating new accounts will be unavailable. We will provide a form to enter your email address to be notified when maintenance is complete.
  • Backups that are in process will continue unless interrupted by your computer shutting down or your internet connection losing connectivity.
  • Buying will be unavailable on our website. However, it will be possible to purchase annual licenses on Amazon.

After the maintenance completes, there will be a ramp up period during which backups will start that may last up to an hour for some users. Thank you for your patience!

Update: Maintenance is done! 22 minutes total—just slightly ahead of schedule. As mentioned above, backups will take up to one hour for some users to restart.

About Gleb Budman

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies.