

Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. While it's known mainly for its consumer service, we found Backblaze Business Backup to be a solid overall option, though some shortcoming around devices, reporting and analytics, as well as the emphasis on a single cloud target keep it behind our Editors' Choice winner in this space, Acronis Cyber Protect. If you're accessing your data or restoring it, you'll also have a robust set of choices, including downloading from the cloud, saving to or copying from Backblaze B2 storage, or having the company send you an external hard drive. Backblaze also gives customers access to Backblaze B2 Storage, which will make your cloud backup target choices a lot simpler, if limited. It can also handle network attached storage (NAS) devices, servers, and cloud backups as long as they're from the Veeam public cloud. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authenticationīackblaze Business Backup is a solid business cloud backup service that will do well for customers interested in backing up Microsoft Windows 10 and Apple Apple macOS computers.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.If you still feel the price tag is too high I'm not going on in trying to convince you, but at least comparisons should include every parameter. And you should also count the downtime costs and compare how many minutes it takes to recover that file from VCC, or the entire backup set from a simple cloud storage. Say you have a 1 TB backup file (and it's a easy scenario like the vbk full file, not an incremental), you need to pay additional 10,24 USD to restore a single file that maybe is 1k. Since I work at Veeam I cannot suggest one provider over the other, but you can use the search tool and find them.Īlso, the comparison on price per GB only is incomplete, do you know Google Nearline has a Data retrieval cost of $0.01 per GB? And because there's no Veeam component running in the cloud, you need to download the entire backup to restore even a single file of the Guest OS. And trust me there are large providers offering Cloud Connect, and I've seen lower prices around even without committing upfront for size or duration.


I'm not going to repeat again myself in saying that comparing a cheap plain storage solution with Cloud Connect is not correct, but at least let me note that you should use the same units to be fair, and say $0,12/GB.
