Backblaze blog1/4/2024 ![]() “Providing the tools to connect, manage, and protect Apple products, while streamlining the user experience is core to Jamf’s mission-adding Backblaze and their latest Mac deployment options to the Jamf Marketplace Mac admins we serve is hugely helpful. Jamf is the standard in Apple enterprise management, so our partnership means that the thousands of admins in the Jamf ecosystem can more easily use Backblaze in their backup and data protection strategies for businesses. ![]() Paired with the announcement from Backblaze of updates to Mass Deployment tools to streamline commands for installs and updates of its backup app, these improvements offer a step change in ease for IT Administrators tasked with safeguarding computers, servers, NAS, or Veeam data. I have ~10 months still left in my Backblaze Personal Backup subscription More info here: You can choose one of the backup programs listed on the "Integrations" page, if you don't have any other preferences you might start with trying "Arq": I've switched to Linux and it doesn't work there.īackblaze has an amazing product for you called "B2" which was designed for Linux, runs on Linux, and all the servers you back up to are running Linux.SAN MATEO, Calif.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Leading storage cloud company Backblaze, and Jamf (JAMF)-the standard in Apple enterprise management-announced a joint solution partnership to make Backblaze backup and data protection services available with ease in the Jamf admin ecosystem. If you contact Backblaze support they can provide you a refund for your unused subscription. We only want to bill customers for a service they actually can use. The reason we give a slight discount to purchasing a year in advance is because it really helps Backblaze with the following "cash flow" problem: when a customer shows up with 1 TByte to backup, Backblaze has to buy 1 TByte of disk capacity for our datacenter IN THE FIRST MONTH which costs Backblaze about $27 even though the customer only pays Backblaze $5 in the first month (if you subscribe month to month). ![]() So Backblaze is negative $22 in the first month. ![]() We don't have any magic deep pockets or VC funding, so this is "a problem". Backblaze MUST run at least a break even business or we die. Too many new customers would literally cause our company to go bankrupt, to be unable to purchase new drives. The solution is instead of borrowing VC dollars or bank loan dollars, we borrow customer dollars against the future. #Contact backblaze support plusĪ "yearly" customer loans Backblaze $50, which immediately means we can afford the 1 TByte drive for them in the first month for $27, plus most of ANOTHER 1 TByte hard drive for another customer who is paying monthly! But if you leave Backblaze, we can "repay the loan" you made to us because you also free up your hard drive space we can now sell to somebody else. This is an alternative solution to this "cash flow" problem which is we take out a bank loan to purchase the drives, then pay off the bank loan over a period of 2 years or 3 years. "Equipment financing" is completely normal in businesses like ours. Any loans we take out are "secured by the actual equipment", kind of like how you can get a car loan because if you stop making loan payments they repossess the car. Thanks for the insight into the Backblaze business model. I imagine I'm not the target customer for the unlimited personal backup (although it is entirely personal data) as I have a significant amount of data stored on my home network (much more than the 1TB from your example), but I'm hoping that you might be able to help me understand the benefit (from a strictly data storage perspective) for the Backblaze B2 solution as compared with AWS Glacier.Īfter becoming one of the many CrashPlan refugees, I looked around for low-cost, reliable data backup solutions and landed with AWS Glacier. It's been fast, reliable, and relatively cheap (though not really compared with the unlimited Backblaze or Crashplan consumer plans, but neither will work, or are available, for my Linux host). It looks like the AWS Glacier cost is still about 20% less per GB-month than B2 presently. There is a cost to get the data into Glacier, but as a backup solution it's been fine.Kimberly: Hi, my name's Kim. And if you want more see more videos like this please look below.
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