[metadaddy]

Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.

> I heard that Backblaze occasionally has weird gotchas that surprise people, like auto-deleting files from your backups that you delete locally, so I just feel cautious.

We have two similar products, and it's easy to mix them up. To clarify:

Backblaze Computer Backup (a different product from Backblaze B2) deletes old versions of files from your backup either 30 days or 1 year (you choose which) after you delete them locally. You also have the option to enable "Forever Version History", which costs $6/TB per month once your files age out of the backup.

Backblaze B2 (S3-compatible cloud object storage) will never delete anything unless you tell it to do so, either via the API or a lifecycle rule.

[tunesmith]

Thanks for clarifying that, that does help. I did start Wasabi's 30-day trial yesterday but will reconsider B2 depending on how that goes.