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And it is still very much Desktop based, I wonder if Blackblaze will one day have a Consumer No Fuss NAS along with B2 Subscription model. ( Something I wish Apple had done with Time Capsule and iCloud )

So I just set, forget and pay monthly knowingly the Data should be safe.

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Synology and FreeNAS support backing up to Backblaze B2, both easily configurable in their respective GUIs. Many other popular NAS solutions allow you to install Duplicati, which will allow you to do the same.

Will the nas connecting count for the 30 days?

I've been thinking about having an external backup of about 5 TB of images, video and documents in an encrypted form but I have issues finding someone who can do it properly.

For now I just have a 2nd nas at my fathers house that mirrors my data.

I've always backed up my NAS to B2 since its early days, and honestly have forgotten about the 30 day deletion limit. I've never encountered the limit in various NAS setups, even when I backed up using cronjobs using the B2 Python client library.

Is this a sync or a proper versioned backup (à la Hyper Backup)?

So will it protect me against ransomware and accidental mass file deletion?

Not out of the box, no. The FreeNAS implementation (and I assume many others) depends on rclone [1], which describes it as rsync for cloud providers.

For protection against that you would have to implement periodic snapshots (which many NAS products also support) and sync the snapshots. Or you could probably use B2's built in snapshot feature. Both require additional manual work, though.

[1]: https://rclone.org/

I am going to try Arq Backup (www.arqbackup.com) with B2 or maybe Onedrive (I have an O365 subscription)

I have less 1 TB of data, so I will save money and get rid of the external drive headache with BackBlaze Consumer.

Arq only works with consumer OneDrive accounts right now (I work on Arq). But we're modifying it right now to work with O365 accounts. Email me at support@arqbackup.com and I'll let you know when it's ready.

Any plans for Azure Storage support? They seem to have much cheaper archival storage than the competition, offering $0.002/GB, amounting to $2 per TB, which is half the price of Glacier.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/bl...

We're looking at it. Looks like it takes up to 15 hours to get your data "rehydrated" so you can download it. Also it's $5 to rehydrate 10,000 blobs so depending on how Arq chunked your data it could cost quite a bit of money to restore.

We just shipped Arq 5.15 with support for backing up to Office 365 and SharePoint accounts. https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/onedrive-office365-sharepoint...

Thanks!

(I had assumed it was already supported based on this chart: https://www.arqbackup.com/docs/pages/strategy.html )

It was only consumer OneDrive before. Now it uses the Microsoft Graph API so you can use OneDrive business accounts too.

You could try our new Arq Cloud Backup offering. It doesn't delete backups of your external drive.

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