Revisión: Servicio de reserva de BackBlaze - 25 beta invita para los lectores simples de la ayuda

por Ross McKillop en 2 de junio de 2008

Windows

Un compañero de trabajo anterior el mío me entró en contacto con recientemente para decirme sobre su nuevo arranque - BackBlaze. Di a servicio un intento, y tengo que admitir - éste es el servicio de reserva en gran medida más fácil que he utilizado siempre. Guarde el leer para que la revisión completa y un acoplamiento den a servicio un intento.

Filosofía de Backblaze: Reserva todos los datos

El servicio de Backblaze sostiene todos sus datos. Creemos que usted no debe necesitar preocuparse si usted seleccionara todos los archivos que usted cuida alrededor, pusiera cualquier archivo en una diversa localización en su computadora, o agregara cualesquiera archivos nuevos que no se puedan incluir en su reserva. Por lo tanto, seleccionamos automáticamente todos sus datos.

Archivos excluidos

Backblaze no desea perder su espacio de disco de la anchura de banda o del datacenter de Backblaze. Así, no reserva su sistema operativo, archivos del programa, o archivos temporales del Internet que sean transitorios y no seríamos útiles en el futuro. En el momento que también excluimos cierto archivo del email mecanografía puesto que cambian con cada email recibido y el archivo grande entero sería sostenido y los archivos que están individualmente sobre MB 100. ¿Usted puede ver estas exclusiones chascando encendido? ¿Más opciones?? ¿en el panel y seleccionar de control? ¿Excluya de reserva? cuadro.

Y su software sigue verdad su filosofía. Usted funciona el instalador, y le hacen. BackBlaze encuentra todas sus fotografías/imágenes, música, películas, documentos, favoritos del Browser y Bookmarks el etc, y lo mueve hacia atrás para arriba. Han hecho reservas tan simples que sí, incluso sus padres pueden hacerlo.

En el extremo de la instalación, BackBlaze le dice exactamente lo que va a comenzar a sostener (nota: hay tan pocos archivos en el screenshot abajo porque utilicé el software en una Vista casi nueva instalo).


chasque para agrandar

Usted puede detenerse brevemente las reservas en cualquier momento, y la ventana de las “extremidades” rotará con varias sugerencias/extremidades para BackBlaze.


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La cañería Ajustes pagine tiene en cuenta para que usted sofoque la anchura de banda usada para las reservas, altere el horario de la notificación, y corrija los directorios superiores.


chasque para agrandar

De Horario página usted puede cambiar cuantas veces ocurren las reservas. Usted deseará probablemente dejar el ajuste del defecto, para uploaded archivos tan pronto como se agreguen/se cambien.


chasque para agrandar

By default, BackBlaze includes all of the Windows System folders to be excluded from being backed up. You can also use this section to add folders that you don’t want BackBlaze to backup.


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The Files Scheduled for Backup tab lists exactly what you’d think - all of the files currently scheduled to be backed up.


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There are currently 3 methods to restore your backups, and there’s a chance that before the product becomes “final”, they will have changed. The existing options are: 1) Back From The Web. You can choose sets of 1GB or less (BackBlaze zips your files into a 1GB zip file and you download that file). You can download an unlimited number of 1GB zip files. 2) BackBlaze will FedEx a 4.7GB DVD of your files. A fee applies, and this is one of the options that may be removed. 3). BackBlaze will load 160GB of your files onto a USB hard drive, and FedEx the drive to you. A fee applies for this option as well, and the final price has yet to be set.


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The web interface, as seen below, is quite easy to navigate and use. You just select the files you want to restore, and choose a restoration method.


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BackBlaze runs in the background all the time. It uses very little system resources and really does define the “set it and forget it” philosophy of software.

Pros and Cons

As I mentioned at the start of this review, this company was founded by a former co-worker. So in the interest of being completely fair, I will list some of the shortcomings of BackBlaze in addition to the benefits. Here goes.

Pros

  • It is painfully easy to setup and use. You don’t need to hunt through all of your folders to make sure they’re being backed up
  • Unlimited backup space. So if you have 300GB of audio files, they’ll backup your 300GB of audio files.
  • If you delete a file on your hard drive, BackBlaze will keep that file on their server for 30 days, so you can restore it if you need to
  • Very competitive price. $5/mo is cheaper than most backup services.
  • Cons

  • The 100MB file size limit. In an age of iMovie and simple video editing software, more and more people are creating digital video - and those files are almost always larger than 100MB. With that said, BackBlaze is looking at ways to remove the 100MB limit
  • No .pst backup. PST files are the ones that Outlook uses to store all of your email. That means BackBlaze doesn’t backup Outlook mail. Again, they’re looking for a way around that - but it is a current limitation.
  • No Mac or Linux client. Yet. Stress yet.
  • 15 days (the length of the trial) is a pretty short period to determine if you want to sign up.
  • So - there you have it. Now give it a try. Visit https://www.backblaze.com/simplehelp and the first 25 folks who sign up can skip the “invitation needed” requirement.

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    Backblaze launches private beta | Backblaze Blog
    06.04.08 at 2:51 pm

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    1 Thomas Murphy 06.02.08 at 11:58 pm

    I had never heard of backblaze before, but its very useful and and as you said, very easy to use.
    Thanks Ross!

    2 Ross McKillop 06.03.08 at 12:12 am

    @Thomas Murphy:

    The very private beta started earlier this year, it wasn’t until yesterday (Monday, June 2nd) that they started to open the private beta a bit more.

    3 Franko 06.03.08 at 11:06 am

    Great concept! I downloaded the backblaze installer and it has been analyzing my drive for 2 hours…hope it finds what it needs…stay tuned for further updates.

    4 Casey Jones 06.03.08 at 4:07 pm

    I work at Backblaze and yesterday was a big day for us. We had some press from other sites and the beta slots filled up quickly.

    After working a year and a half on the product, we are excited about people’s response. We are having some growing pains, so if the install hangs on the Analyzing Drive part, you may want to try the install again. It shouldn’t take longer then 5 minutes for the install to finish.

    If you have any problems or want to leave feedback, you can drop us a line at:
    https://www.backblaze.com/support_cs.html

    Thanks again.

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