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by SeanKilleen 4526 days ago
I understand this concept. I also would not describe me as "decrying" Backblaze at all, nor saying that restoring backups is fundamentally broken. It's broken for me _right now_, and I think the UX and approach could be better.

I've been in IT for 10+ years, and while force killing chrome worked, it was a genuine surprise, given that every other site (including bandwidth-sensitive) activities performed fine. On that one, I should have dug deeper. Rather than closing and reopening the windows, I should have killed the processes sooner. I'm willing to give them a pass on that.

I'm more concerned about waiting 12+ hours for a 6GB restore that then can't be extracted and restored, even when I used their downloader to ensure better results.

These issues also happened on two different machines, both of which work fine in every other respect.