Two of the hottest online backup services, and our current number one and two picks, are Backblaze and CrashPlan. Both companies offer online backup but beyond that they have very different philosophies on how that backup should be done. Backblaze For Backblaze, as I have mentioned before, they simply backup everything. Instead of making the [...]
Backblaze is one of only a few companies that offer restores via an external medium like an external hard drive. They used to offer a DVD restore option for $99 but have just removed the DVD option and in its place are not offering a restore by a 28GB USB flash drive. The best part [...]
With only a few days left until Christmas you don’t have much time left to get out there and buy your Christmas presents. If you want to avoid the crowds and the craziness of the stores an option that you do still have is to buy a years subscription to an online backup service for [...]
Tomorrow is what has become know as Black Friday and the Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals are starting to roll out for many of the online backup services. I have seen a sneak peek of some of the deals this year and there are some good savings to be found for online backup. Backblaze [...]
Backblaze released version 2 of their backup client not long ago and since then I have been trying out the new version. The new unlimited file size and improved large file backup are nice new features to have. No longer do you have to worry about files being missed because they were over the 4GB [...]
While the drama between Backify and Livedrive seems to have ended with Backify finally closing its doors there is some good news to come out of all of this. Backblaze has come to the rescue of Backify users with a great offer. This is a great chance to save 10% on your initial purchase of [...]
Backblaze just announced that version two of their backup software has been released. This release is mostly a release to improve performance of their client software but it offers some significant improvements with their service. While Backblaze offered unlimited storage they did have limits on file size (of 9GB) and what types of files would [...]
Backblaze and Carbonite are two of the easiest online backup services you can use at the moment and are two of our more popular services that we have reviewed. In many ways the services are similar but they are very different in how they perform their backups. Backblaze takes the approach to backup everything on [...]
Losing your laptop or worse having your laptop or home computer stolen is a common cause of people losing all of their data. Backblaze has helped people in the past that have had their laptops stolen by helping track down the people that stole them. Now they are taking it to a whole new level [...]
You never know when disaster is going to strike. Everything could be working great before lunch, come back from lunch and your computer hard drive might have died. Of course in a perfect world you will have a local backup to restore from the day before. That will restore all of your files except for [...]
