Ok. So your credit card expired, and the provider cleared your cloud data. How do you retrieve it?
See, each has issues.
See, each has issues.
> Backblaze will backup external USB and Firewire hard drives that are detached and re-attached as long as you remember to re-attach the hard drive at least once every 30 days. If the drive is detached for more than 30 days, Backblaze interprets this as data that has been permanently deleted and securely deletes the copy from the Backblaze datacenter
It's a real fucker like if you have your stuff in storage for a while and then reformat the drive and then try to download everything from Backblaze (what I do every time I get a new computer), only to discover it's not there. Left a REAL bad taste.
If they allowed people to back up unlimited USB drives and networks shares, /r/datahoarder would be all up their business with 1PB storage.
This is why they limit it to only stuff you're actually using.
If you want generic cloud storage with infinite retention, they have B2
What you can't do is connect a 20TB USB drive, back it up and put it in your cupboard for a year and expect the data to still be there.
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If your house burns down there's a good chance that you're losing both the original and the backup.
Ideally you have the original, a local backup and a cloud backup. The cloud backup can be updated a few times a day, and the local every few 10 - 15 minutes.
Bottom line: have a backup, and utilize cloud as well as local storage.
1. my credit card expired
2. I've started getting warning emails about data being cleared, and giving me a few weeks to fix this (because my provider does want me to keep paying.. it's their business after all)
3. I put in a new credit card and it all works again
Compare it to: you came back home and your data is gone. Or you power up your PC after power outage, and the disk fails. Or even worse, you are sitting in front of your computer, and the cryptolocker/ransomware window pops up.
(And one of those is much more likely to happen than others. I don't think I've ever heard stories about cloud data deleted for non-payment, but I've had plenty of first-hand experiences with disk failures and send-hand stories about ransomware)