[colinthompson]

Big Backblaze fan. You guys have saved me a couple critical times!

I'm curious if your guys' view on NAS options is evolving at all?

My interest is this:

Here at Pixar we have several folks who I'd call "lazy power users" at home. Folks like us are familiar with computers, and we want a strong home network, but want to spend as little time as possible sysadmin-ing the thing. That generally means powerful, easy to manage wifi, proper firewalls, etc.....and networked storage/sharing & backup of all the family computers, from personal machines to spouse and kid setups.

For the circles I run in, this is a fairly common case, and no single service seems to fit the bill.

Backblaze seems so close (especially WRT "it just works"). If it could offer a "Home backup solution" as a service...oh man, I know of at least a hundred people who would sign up in a heartbeat.

[eltoozero]

How's this sound?

- MikroTik firewall, centrally monitored by "The Dude" - Unifi wireless on a hosted controller if the size justifies, otherwise do MikroTik CAPSMan or just straight integrated wifi AP on the bridge. - VPN tunnels on the MikroTik to HQ (or not). - Synology NAS on-site in 2-5 bay config (hot-spare). - Time Capsule the Macs. - Windows File History the PCs - rsync the lunix. - Use the cloud connector to back it all up to a central Backblaze B2 bucket (straight from the Synology). - Do more with Dude like alert to order toner when printers SNMP fires.

Multiply ad nauseum.

[cheeze]

Sounds like a lot of work

[brianwski]

> I'm curious if your guys' view on NAS options is evolving at all?

Our Backblaze "B2" product line was designed so that you get the exact same cost of storage of the online backup product line but you were free to write ANY policy you like (such as backup NAS boxes). Developers can use these APIs: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/ And if you are a "lazy power user" who wants something that just works, maybe check out one of these 3rd party tools: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html

[eltoozero]

> I'm curious if your guys' view on NAS options is evolving at all?

It's simple, Backblaze "home" doesn't work on NAS boxes, but Backblaze B2 does, Synology NAS supports it natively via the Cloud Sync package.

Backblaze home is $5 flat rate for a single machine.

Backblaze B2 has granular pricing but it's like <$20 a year cheap for several of my clients.

[criddell]

They have a pricing calculator on this page:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

For what I want (a fairly static 2 TB backup), it would cost around $130 / year. If my QNAP box supports it, I think I'm going to sign up.

[SpikeDad]

Just to be accurate Cloud Sync IS NOT a backup solution as one would typically imagine. You can set Sync to be one way (DSM -> B2) but it's not available for Hyperbackup so it's not a real backup service.

[chrisper]

Too bad my upload speeds to B2 are horrid. Maybe it is because I am uploading from Europe, but I have no such issues with Google Drive.

[systemz]

Increase simultaneous uploads or divide your backup into more parts and upload it simultaneously, works for me - uploading from OVH DCs, France.

[iofiiiiiiiii]

I can max out my 100 Mbps connection if I use use multiple parallel transfers for it. This is in East Europe.

[atYevP]

Hey Colin -> I'll echo what Brian said below (he's our CTO though didn't identify himself, I'll shame him later). Our B2 service is designed for that. Adding NAS support to our computer backup service would skew the math too much in the wrong direction, but we developed B2 to be flexible for the majority of use-cases and it's been integrated with a lot of popular NAS platforms as well.

[pnutjam]

I think it's interesting that you seem to innately recognize a linux box is basically a NAS. I run a full linux box at home that I use as a personal cloud / NAS.

[huhtenberg]

> "Home backup solution"

Do you mean some kind of _managed_ on-prem NAS or a NAS hooked up to Backblaze online storage?