teenkda.blogg.se - Backblaze personal

So if you've got a Mac, test it out before you ever need it - try downloading a folder or group of folders that have lots of small files and totals 50-60gb, and see if it changes your file names. I worked with Backblaze and we came to the conclusion above - that it's just a difference between Backblaze's implementation of 'zip' and macOS's implementation of it. When I tried to unzip files that were up to the maximum size Backblaze allowed, the file names were replaced with seemingly random encoded letters, like "%A3". The restore was extremely painful - there's a size limit for zip files, so you have to choose groups of folders that's fine (as long as you make a note of where you got to!) - but there's a difference between how Backblaze makes zip files and how macOS unzips them. I've done a huge restore from Backblaze personal - I got a new Mac Mini and decided to restore all my personal files.

Backblaze B2 is S3-compatible, has been very reliable for me, and is pretty much the cheapest solution for volume storage. It will supports several targets, including S3-compatible services. It will backup your apps, configurations, and data. If you want a real backup, you'll want to use Synology's HyperBackup.

Backblaze Personal restore is "we send you a set of ZIPs and you'll need to decompress it and put it back in place." You'll need double the space to restore everything, and you'll be doing manually.

At best, it will be janky trying to get a VM to see your data as local and go through that to back things up, much less test it for restoring.

Not a lot of point in backing up to a service that may suddenly cancel your data access. If you are interested in being able to restore the whole NAS, a data-only solution will not work. Even if you find a way, you really don't want to do it: Backblaze doesn't want you to use Backblaze Personal for NAS storage.

You'll have to do some major contortions to figure out a solution.