[elfchief]

I love Backblaze, I really do, but holy hell is the user experience bad if you ever need to actually interact with any part of their software -- client or website. And it's been that way forever, and it's super frustrating that it seems like they've put zero effort into improving any of it.

Though reading some of the "backup got frozen, compare everything by hand" stories from here, I'm starting to wonder if maybe I shouldn't put my data somewhere else. Problem is, I've yet to find another "fire and forget" type of wolution for windows that works anywhere near as well.

[iJohnDoe]

There doesn’t seem much reason to “love Backblaze” based on what you said. You might as well be transferring your files into a volcano and then have to trek into the volcano in the hopes you might get lucky and everything hasn’t burned up if you ever have to recover something.

[bberenberg]

Absolutely agree. I have had it save my butt a few times when I damaged an important file and was able to pull an older version, but every single time I have done this, it made me trust their tooling for whole system recovery less and less. I do wish there was a better option. Currently considering Arq for the next computer.

[philistine]

I use Arq on a Mac Mini to have last resort offsite copies of my Time Machine backups on AWS Glacier. I must be breaking some proper backup practices, but I know nothing about nothing. Being the guy who knows nothing, I can say Arq is great. It allows you to dissociate the backup software from the backup service, which means I get to have a piece of software I know runs well, and is financed by my 50$ purchase price.