The results? Nearly ever image was there. It then took around 48 hours to download to my computer, using the Backblaze Downloader app, which they say is “faster” than doing it through a browser window. It has to zip the files into one package. The download took over an hour to prepare itself. So tried to download them to save myself having to re-cull the wedding. I hand’t actually lost them, I’d merely lost some ranking I’d made during a cull in PhotoMechanic and realised that Backblaze might have the ratings still on them. I had to restore a whole wedding recently. How many times have you restored a whole wedding folder of images to your computer? Most folk have tried a file or two, but very few try to restore large amounts of data. Not fact.īut modern technology is great, Backblaze is reliable…. Not knowing this fact is allowing yourself to rely on pure hope and prayer. I need to know every single file is correctly copied. When copying over thousands of images files from a wedding shoot, I’ll often do this. You can even run it twice (re-run it), to check again if the files were copied correctly. With that program, it has a setting where it can verify every single file it copies over. Not only that, but the files that it has copied over, how do you know they copied over correctly? There is no way of checking.Ĭompare this to copying files from your drive, to a local backup drive, using Chronosync. The best you can hope for is to count the number of files and cross your fingers. Even when complete, there is absolutely no way you can compare what you have on your drive to what Backblaze has on your backup. It’s getting better, if you live in a city with a fast upload speed, but for folk like me that live in a village in the countryside, with upload speeds of around 7Mbs, it’s slow….īecause you have no control over how much data is uploaded and in what order its uploaded, you have no way of knowing what has already been uploaded and what hasn’t. Even on a fast connection it’s not quick. Recently, I’ve seen quite a few photographers posting about the fact that the only off-site backup they have is Backblaze! This worries me big time.īackblaze takes time to upload your files. Backblaze works great, however it’s not perfect! I’ve used the program for the last 3 years after moving from Crashplan, another cloud storage solution that I was using since 2013.
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