Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful
by cloogshicer on Hacker News.
I’ve been using Backblaze for a few years for my home computer. You know how everyone keeps telling you, a backup is only a true backup once you’ve done at least one restore? Now I know why (silly me). I just got a “Safety Freeze” error [1] – essentially some inconsistency with my backup. Backblaze will not tell me the actual cause of this inconsistency. It’s possible that some data might be missing – Backblaze doesn’t tell me though. The only official solution is to manually check all files (millions in my case). I also can’t download a full backup since Backblaze only allows downloads of up to 500GB at once. So my only option is to do a full hard drive restore, costing $189 + customs in Europe, so at the end probably closer to 300€. But even then I won’t know if/which of my data was corrupted. What bugs me is that the Backblaze desktop software should be able to resolve this – it should be possible to do a hash of all the files that are in the most recent backup, and cross-check it with the hashes of the files on my machine. Not sure what I should do now. [1] https://ift.tt/30kTQDZ