Backblaze B2 does exactly what you want, when you want it. Backblaze B2 is really awesome, it literally never deletes any file until you tell it to delete the file -> you NEVER have to plug in your external drive ever again, for the rest of time, Backblaze B2 will keep it safe. The correct solution for you: Backblaze created "Backblaze B2" for a manual use case of uploading files when you want, and not deleting the files from B2 until you explicitly make the decision to delete them. You might get it to work for a while, but eventually it will result in losing most or all of your data. I'd then plug in drive B.and so on and so forth working my way through each drive. I'd fill hard drive A and that would be backed up to Backblaze, I'd unplug and likely archive that drive in room. Would I be incurring fee's for those files after 1/2 year, assuming I never need to access those files on Backblaze? Can I leave those files unplugged and the data will remain on Backblaze indefinitely?ĭisclaimer: I work at Backblaze and wrote a lot of the "Forever Version History" and external drive unplugging and replugging code.īackblaze works best if you can plug in all of the drives at once, with all of the data on them, all at the same time, once every 15 days. In theory, backblaze would have mirror copies of drive A, B, C and D. As each drive is filled I'd likely be archiving them physically somewhere, only accessing them in an emergency.
I'd fill hard drive A and that would be backed up to Backblaze, i'd unplug and likely archive that drive in room.
Ideally, I'd have a dedicated computer with external drives, say hard drive A, B, C and D. That's not going to work for me, so I looked into the forever option, which is confusing me. The 30-day countdown is only for drives that have been unplugged. If the drive is detached for more than 30 days, Backblaze interprets this as data that has been permanently deleted and securely deletes the copy from the Backblaze datacenter. However, Backblaze will backup external USB and Firewire hard drives that are detached and re-attached as long as you remember to re-attach the hard drive at least once every 30 days. '‘Backblaze works best if you leave the external hard drive attached to your computer all the time. In short, I'm looking at backblaze as a means of last resort for backing up my video data, however I'm filling drives and swapping them out often and this caught my eye. Mods, I did look through and couldn't find anything that specifically answered my question, but apologies if this has been posted A BILLION TIMES!
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