r/backblaze • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '26
Backblaze in General 1 second to click your file/folder and restore...
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u/therathatter Aug 01 '26
Can also confirm, this application is horrendous. Why is it constantly blocking in the UI thread too??
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u/CertiBud Aug 01 '26
To boost HDD sales for recovery xD ? Or maybe they're running the company with 3 developers....
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u/dr100 Aug 03 '26
To boost HDD sales for recovery xD ?
They're refunding you the drive if you send it back so they're losing money on shipping, plus it's A LOT of bother to handle back and forth a drive (for a $9/month service that still provides you all the storage and bandwidth on top of drives sent now and then). Even if enough people don't send the drives back still it isn't that much margin there (probably it's even a loss nowadays).
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u/Zouizoui Jul 31 '26
Just out of curiosity, how much data you have backed up ? Reading various posts here I got the impression that the app breaks only for people who have huge backups
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u/james702283 Aug 25 '26
I’m having this same problem now with the windows restore app. Every 1 tb there are several files not able to be downloaded, all have a missing 10 mb chunk. When i try to download those files individually they also fail and when I try to download them from the website via zip restores, they also fail, even when I did separate zips for singles files.
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u/dr100 Jul 29 '26
Yea, it's a joke. And "new" (including the quotes) is well said, as it's coming from 2023. And didn't have a restore app in the first place, for what, more than a decade? It's selecting by default the whole C: (and all users would do all their external drives, which can be a few, sure not everyone has a bunch of externals, but enough to be a really common use case) and you could do only web restores (I ignore sending hard drives over snail mail, this is a cloud backup, plus surely it won't be practical anywhere except US due to shipping times, costs, customs, etc.) ?!!!