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by brianwski 1569 days ago
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful:

https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif

You have to zoom in to see the meaningful information. It can be super surprising to developers and IT people (like us) to see a lot of customers have less data than you might think.

When we started we had no idea what might come of all of this, so it was "stressful". :-) So I welcome another backup client developer to our club, and hope this can help them out.

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They aren't that many, but I'm assuming he's starting up so not sure how many he can handle. I recall Crashplan having enough >10TB guys that they decided "unlimited" wasn't, and that was many years ago.

Personally I have 3TB of essential data, and about 10TB if I wanted to backup most of my computer.

Interesting graph though, thanks for sharing!

That url just shows a bunch of memes. Can you reupload?