[benjojo12]

I have 100/100 up and down, and I barely push any more than 3MB/s when uploading. and in that time the client is easting all cores alive. I appreciate that it may not be the ISP. but the client does seem to end up being a major bottle neck.

I moved to Linux a few months back, and was going to basically cancel my Backblaze sub when I got around to it since you have no interset in making a Linux client. Maybe B2 can act as a solution to this at a price penalty.

[brianwski]

Or a price savings! If you do the math, I think the break even is at 1 TByte. If you only need to backup 500 GBytes from your Linux server then you'll save 50%.

[benjojo12]

Not server, desktop, Hence my annoyance you don't have a client for it.

I can understand your biz reasons for not having one though.

[brianwski]

Now with B2 we immediately support Linux and provide a client for it out of the box (written in python). Granted, it is only a command line interface so give us a little time to polish it up and add some features.

[lucb1e]

Another Linux user here who would love to use a command line Python tool to backup my data to Backblaze: with Python I can see how my stuff is encrypted. That's the only reason I'm not using Backblaze right now: closed source client.

My only interest in B2 is backing up for a lower cost than the ridiculousness of S3: at $0.022/GB, I might as well buy a 3TB hard drive myself, put it at a friend's and push my data there. Every month. At the end of the year, I'd have 36TB in hard drive capacity if I bought drives instead of paying for 3TB of S3 storage.

(All numbers are estimates and "roughly"s. Also I don't have external backups now because I'm too lazy to write the software myself, so there is something to say for paying instead of not having it.)

[paimpozhil]

You are ignoring the Electricity/BW costs spent by your friend which would raise your costs

I use backuplizard for personal data/photos which works out more like cost of a one 2 TB disk per year to me and to me Its easy to pay it instead of owning disks and worry about them breaking,etc

[lucb1e]

I did the math properly once, the S3 costs still didn't work out by far. I have a server here at home and an external hard drive for it, so I know how much power it draws. Bandwidth is free, but in the calculation I did assume I would pay for bandwidth.

All in all, it's by far the cheapest option to store it at a friend's. Storage providers could also cheapen things a whole lot by offering reduced redundancy and whatever else it is they do to make it so expensive (glacier storage is also more expensive than the price I got). It's a backup after all, I don't need my backup to have five copies on spinning (versus offline, non-powered) disks. If my backup dies, I'll upload it again...

[kyledrake]

Get me access to the private beta and you'll have a ruby gem very quickly. [e-mail]

[voltagex_]

Give this guy access! (Kyle, does that mean Neocities might gain some extra storage capabilities soon? ;))

[atYevP]

Did you sign up on the site?

[msh]

On my 100/100 fiber in Denmark I have seen back blaze speeds up to 65 megabits a sec.

It is faster transferring big files rather than many small files.