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Comment by leetbulb | Hacker News Reader

Any different than Backblaze B2? Seems that B2 is still cheaper and more mature.

With C14 you create a "safe", you upload your data, and once done (or after 7 days), they archive your safe. To retrieve data, you need to ask for the safe to be unarchived and you get access back to your data, for 7 days.

I tried to use B2 recently but was being forced to enter a phone number. Waiting for a response from support, but so far that's blocking me from using B2. I don't know if C14 is better or not.

Yev from Backblaze here -> We require a 2FV for Backblaze B2 for added security - it's not for sales purposes, but for our 2FV implementation.

What is 2FV (two factor verification, I assume), is it another name for 2FA (two factor authentication)?

If so, what kind of verification is it used for?

In any case, thanks for responding here!

Yo! Sorry, yes. To sign in to the web for Backblaze B2 you can choose to have 2FV enabled - though we require that you at least set up the phone to do this. 2FV is like 2FA except in our implementation, at the moment, the only 2nd factor is a phone. 2FA tends to have a few more options (like apps and such) but it's essentially the same thing.

Alright, well, until it's possible to opt out of the phone number requirement, I'll probably not be using B2.

Thanks again for the info!

B2 has a file limit of 5GB. No thanks.

What's with the downvotes?

Here: "A file contains a sequence of bytes. Any file on your computer can be uploaded to B2 and stored in a Cloud Storage, as long as it's not too big. Files can range in size from 0 bytes to 5 billion bytes. "

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/files.html

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/large_files.html

Thanks. I was using rclone last time to upload files and that's when I had hit the file limit. So I googled and found the link I provided in my comment. It appears that rclone does not support large file upload! hm...

EDIT: Actually it's in progress: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/456

EDIT2: It is actually already implemented in v1.30!

I think for data integrity alone, you wouldn't want to upload files that large. Just create an archive that splits the file up.

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