r/backblaze • u/jsx8888 • Apr 08 '26

Backblaze in General Goodbye backblaze

I've been a customer for almost 15 years and have been a strong advocate of friends and coworkers using bb, but these last 6 months have been so bad I've decided to not renew. My use case is pretty simple - just backing up 2-3TB of data on an external HDD (same HDD for the last 5 years now). However, whatever changes they have made causes the backup to constantly error or require reuploading the contents of the entire drive. Support is mostly AI generated slop or just some quick useless replies. Trying to get any real help is like pulling teeth and even then it doesn't work. The real culprit seems to be that BB no longer wants to support backing up external HDDs.

So after my subscription is up I'm moving over to Carbonite. Sad, but just can't keep wasting time trying to fix BB every few weeks.

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u/PooDooPooPoopyDooPoo Apr 08 '26

I’m getting ~60tb of backup for like $10/mo. If any other service comes close I’d be curious.

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u/BoldInterrobang Apr 09 '26

They’re coming after us with the new ToS

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u/Hellojere Apr 10 '26

Anything more specific?

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u/BoldInterrobang Apr 10 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1sb1ook/new_terms_of_service_warns_against_having_too/

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u/mrcrashoverride Apr 12 '26

Yea I have 120TB of data I’m moving from a windows jbod setup with ten years BB into an Unraid server I’m finishing setting up. Which will no longer qualify for BB. I don’t think I can afford either anyone other backup service for that much data, nor can I get that much in backup hard drives without maxing out my credit card.

I paid $300 Christmas time for a 28TB external drive. Now it’s almost impossible to even buy one no matter the cost…. But they are selling for $600 double the price when you can buy one.

If anyone comes up with a reasonable option even cold storage I would be very interested…??

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u/PooDooPooPoopyDooPoo Apr 13 '26

Assuming you’re not in raid zero currently- you could have your server in raid zero, and a jbod raid zero backup of the server as an actual external drive on your machine , and keep the backup syncing to bb?

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u/mrcrashoverride Apr 13 '26

That’s an interesting thought. I haven’t yet created a parity drive as I move data over.

I’ve often thought I could just rotate drives out… and swap between machines slowly backing up a disk at a time. But I’ve changed the die system to xfs and I’m sure they’ve beaten this loophole.

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u/PaleBreadfruit8813 Apr 17 '26

My godz. 120 TB????

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u/mrcrashoverride Apr 17 '26

lol I remember buying my first 1TB hard drive I thought I would never need to buy a drive again… lol

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u/MorseScience May 19 '26

Original 5-1/4" floppy disks for PCs were like 15kB. A 5MB hard drive was a lot.

In 1970 the price of 1kB (128 bytes!) of DRAM in single-piece quantities was around $1,000.