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by voisin 963 days ago
Why Wasabi and not Backblaze?
2 comments

I used to love Backblaze until I dug in a bit more and realized the product is unreliable.

Quoted from my own past comment[0]:

1. The client will lie to you and you never know what’s really backed up. Even if you use the secret alt-click to force a full drive scan, it can still miss files and tell you fully backed up when files from days ago are still nowhere to be found. Luckily I’ve never actually needed to do a restore, but I almost thought I did one time and would have been furious at all the missing files I noticed.

2. This might not matter to some people but absolutely no meta data is backed up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301626

Wasabi has a pretty much static price, whereas B2 has you pay for storage and misc fees depending on how much api calls and bandwidth you use.