What's your upload speed? - Felix01

I guess the dirtbag(s) who voted this comment as not helpful considers it acceptable to take five months to perform my initial 425GB upload!!

Sorry, I don't.

Per the company web site, "Typical home connections can backup online 2 - 4 GB per day." And I'd say that's pretty accurate considering the normal upload speed on my residential DSL line.

Plus, on storage forum discussions, I've been seeing folks complaining that if you set the Control Panel "Throttle" setting for "Faster" backups, your network bogs down to unacceptably-slow speeds. Plus the file compression algorithm apparently really stresses all but the fastest processors...again, slowing down the daily work flow...in my case for *five* months as it churns away 24*7 to complete the initial backup.

Now once that's finally completed, I would assume the incremental backups would occur fairly rapidly similar to the way Apple's Time Machine works.

Again, good idea (hands-off process with off-site storage of user data) but I just don't think technically we're there yet to make BackBlaze viable for users with larger storage requirements. And as more and more ISPs start monitoring individual user traffic across their lines with an eye toward charging or otherwise penalizing heavy users, it becomes even more difficult to embrace this backup scheme.

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Wednesday, April 15 2009 @ 05:22 PM PDT

What's your upload speed? - davebarnes

I would agree with your comments.
100%.
I tried Backblaze and it ate my machine. Took every bit of my 2.8 GHz CPU.

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Saturday, April 18 2009 @ 07:01 AM PDT

What's your upload speed? - tim.lance

You all are nuts if you think you're going to get anything faster than you ISP's pipe.

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Thursday, May 21 2009 @ 06:09 PM PDT

Insightful - Felix01

Well tim.lance, that's really an insightful deduction. None of us knew that out before your astute post.

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Friday, May 22 2009 @ 12:45 AM PDT