{"id":9875,"date":"2014-10-15T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9875"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:13:06","slug":"begemanns-backblaze-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/begemanns-backblaze-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Begemann&rsquo;s Backblaze Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oleb.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/backblaze\/\">Ole Begemann<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olebegemann\/status\/522412744898007041\">Twitter comments<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/oleb.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/backblaze\/\"><p>There is this saying that a backup system that requires manual work is not a reliable backup. That&rsquo;s Backblaze if you have to deal with external drives.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The Backblaze client has no restore functionality. All restores (be it a single file or your entire archive) start on the website and require you to send your private passphrase to Backblaze&rsquo;s servers where the data will be decrypted before you can download it. Needless to say, this is not at all ideal from a security perspective.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This may sound like an obscure limitation that is largely irrelevant in real life, but it means you won&rsquo;t be able to move data between drives without risking the loss of your backup state for weeks or potentially months (until the initial backup is complete).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, it sounds like moving a file causes its backup history to be lost, which is not the case with CrashPlan or Arq.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Begemann (Twitter comments): There is this saying that a backup system that requires manual work is not a reliable backup. That&rsquo;s Backblaze if you have to deal with external drives. [&#8230;]The Backblaze client has no restore functionality. All restores (be it a single file or your entire archive) start on the website and require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[534,146,35,30,32],"class_list":["post-9875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backblaze","tag-backup","tag-cloud","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}