Thoughts on backblaze.com

[ful56_uk]

Hi

 

Anyone use backblaze.com with Veeam for offsite backup copy, any feedback would be good.

 

Cheers

[dhicks]

Anyone use backblaze.com with Veeam for offsite backup copy, any feedback would be good.

 

Yes, we've just started using them. We're still moving away from Amazon at the moment, and won't be fully switched over for a while (we have a whole new hardware setup to configure), but estimates for costs are about a quarter of what Amazon is costing us at the moment (£50 a month instead of £200 a month).

 

We're using Veeam to backup locally to a local server (about 80TB in total apparent storage to backup up to 10TB of user data / virtual machines), then syncing from that to Backblaze via rclone. We haven't tried a restoration yet, so I'm not sure how long restore times will be - in most cases we'd be restoring from a local backup anyway, the Backblaze copy is in case something goes really wrong.

[netadmin]

I don't run Veeam, but I send an encrypted backup from a Synology NAS to Backblaze B2 and it's worked well so far. Their pricing seems to be the best by far.

[ful56_uk]

Thanks for the information. I was looking to use there tiger bridge as the way to get it to the B2

[dhicks]

Thanks for the information. I was looking to use there tiger bridge as the way to get it to the B2

 

Tiger Bridge is possibly not the best solution to use with Veeam:

 

https://www.veeam.com/kb3069

 

A simple mirror of your backups to Backblaze (or other cloud storage) should be fine, though.

[ful56_uk]

Tiger Bridge is possibly not the best solution to use with Veeam:

 

https://www.veeam.com/kb3069

 

A simple mirror of your backups to Backblaze (or other cloud storage) should be fine, though.

 

Interesting thanks for this, is that why you are using rclone?

[dhicks]

Interesting thanks for this, is that why you are using rclone?

 

I'm familier with using rclone, so it was pretty much my first choice anyway - it's free, easy to set up and runs with no problems. Plus it supports a huge amount of cloud storage options, so if we move provider we just configure a new storage backend in rclone and carry on with very little effort needed.

[ful56_uk]

I'm familier with using rclone, so it was pretty much my first choice anyway - it's free, easy to set up and runs with no problems. Plus it supports a huge amount of cloud storage options, so if we move provider we just configure a new storage backend in rclone and carry on with very little effort needed.

 

Can i ask you how you are configuring rclone, are you using a sync job or copy job? do you run rclone after the veeam job has finished?

 

cheers

[dhicks]

Can i ask you how you are configuring rclone, are you using a sync job or copy job? do you run rclone after the veeam job has finished?

 

We run an rclone sync job, after the Veeam job has finished, so rclone simply copies the new backup images up to Backblaze and deletes any older / expired ones. We're just on the default retention setup for Veeam backups at the moment, we might extend that a bit at some point.

[ful56_uk]

do you use a task scheduler for the rclone part, sorry for all the questions just trying to get familiar with rclone and how it work/setup

[dhicks]

do you use a task scheduler for the rclone part

 

At the moment we just run rclone from Windows Task Schedular some time after the Veeam backup job is run - at some point we should probably change that to run as a command-triggered-when-backup-job-complete.

[ful56_uk]

cheers thanks for your help