Please.Īs the programmer who created (and loves) the Backblaze Personal backup (the Windows client), you make me so happy. Tl dr: Dear Backblaze: Give me Backblaze on Linux and charge me for the data usage. So I'd happy pay the B2 rates, or heck - even a per-device monthly fee PLUS the B2 rates to get Backblaze on Linux. I understand that this would require more development effort, and that too needs to be funded.
I have to set up some other way of monitoring them, to ensure they're backing up. I've moved a lot of the machines I'm responsible for over to Linux, but the thing that still makes me nervous is whether the backup options I've put in place will actually have worked when they're needed the most. What none of the solutions I've found do is let me install it, configure it, and then not have to worry about it until something goes wrong like Backblaze for Windows. On the Linux side, well there's a buch of backup software - everything from "I built 500 lines of shell script around rsync" to Deja Dup to Borg to everything else. It lets me have the confidence that all the machines I'm responsible for are, actually, backed up. If a machine doesn't back up for some length of time, I get told to go check it out.Īll in all - if it's not perfect, it's damn close to it. I get a monthly email that the machines I'm backing up are, infact, backing up. It is pretty smart about not consuming all the network bandwidth on a machine (good for places where 1Mbit upload is considered pretty good). I install it, I configure it, I never touch it again unless something goes wrong. The things I love about Backblaze on Windows is that it's very much no-nonsense. I'd like to make a case for making Backblaze on Linux with B2 as the backend (or at least charge like B2). There's a post here that perfectly explains it, and I'm fully in agreement with the rationale of not just offering flat-rate options.
There's been a ton of posts asking about Backblaze on linux OSs.Ī lot of the responses from Backblaze can be summed up as "Offering Backblaze on Linux would make it unprofitable".
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