The update is free to all users.īackblaze costs $5/month for unlimited backup per Mac, including any connected external drives. Some say only use Time Machine to make sure things will work. They say I wont be able to get my library back from Backblaze, Dropbox, Carbointe, etc.
Any that say both (unplugged) and are unchecked can be checked, which will combine the two. Some say a cloud service can not effectively backup a Photos Library because of formats (OSX Extended - I dont know as Im not a technical guy).
It won’t magically add extra bandwidth out of thin air, and the company suggests limiting usage to two or three threads, but if you’ve told the app to use a decent chunk of your upload capacity and it isn’t doing it, adding an extra thread or two should help. Review the list of drives selected for backup - unchecking any that shouldn't be backed up, and checking ones that should be (Backblaze system preferences/control panel -> Settings -> Select Hard Drives for Backup). It offers unlimited backup storage for a single PC and is easy to set up. The company says those more than 500 miles from its California data center should see the greatest benefit. Backblaze proves that online backup services do not need to be expensive or complicated. You can now assign multiple processes (or threads, in Backblaze’s terminology) to the job. Faster downloads will also be available when restoring from a backup.Īlthough you’ve always been able to choose how much of your upload bandwidth the app uses, latency issues meant that the app didn’t always take advantage of higher speeds. This will primarily be of benefit for the initial backup, which can take several weeks. Backblaze is today launching version 4.0 of its Mac backup app, potentially allowing file uploads to happen five times faster.