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I have been using Backblaze for a few years on my Windows pc and it just seemed to work. I have just switched to Mac and I am having to backup everything again and it is taking ages. BB‘s reputation seems to be tarnished since I started using them so I am looking to change to another provider. The choice is bewildering, pricing varies considerably and as usual reviews for each vary from poor to very good. Even the upload speeds for each provider are quoted by some as fast and others as slow. I need to backup just over 1TB and I have reasonably fast fibre broadband but the upload speed shown by BB is a lot slower than my broadband is capable of. I have tried all the BB suggestions but they have very little impact.

Any recommendations from what others are using?
 
Does anyone offer anything like AWS Snowball, where the initial transfer is done by shipping a harddisk.
 
I use iDrive and find it brillaint.
10TB for about £30/year
 
Mr Bump said:
I use iDrive and find it brillaint.
10TB for about £30/year
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How do you get it so cheap? Looking at their website at the moment it's $150 reduced down to $100 with their current offer for 10TB
 
Mr Bump said:
I use iDrive and find it brillaint.
10TB for about £30/year
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iDrive is on my short list. I tried the free version and the speed was 3/4 times faster than Backblaze.
 
I'm happily using Backblaze, I have about 1.4 Tb in my backup set, and it just works (despite having an old PC).
As already mentioned, the initial backup will always take a significant amount of time - for me it's the day to day impact (which appears low) and cost that are the important factors that make a service usable or not.
 
I used Backblaze for years with no issues. The initial backup will take some time. you may have a high speed internet connection but BB will have to throttle each user as they will only have a limited bandwidth to share between each user.
 
JohnMcL7 said:
How do you get it so cheap? Looking at their website at the moment it's $150 reduced down to $100 with their current offer for 10TB
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you can actually get a promo code and get your first year for peanuts, my renewals are £79 a year but if you press the grumble button they half the price.
To be fair 100$ is about £80 so still not bad for 10TB
 
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