Wednesday, April 15, 2009
BackBlaze for Mac Out of Beta
Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Software (OS X)" @ 08:00 AM
"Back in December, online backup company Backblaze launched a private beta of its service for Mac users. Like its Windows counterpart, the Backblaze subscription service is $5 US a month (or $50 US a year) for unlimited backup space. Today, the company is officially launching its service for Mac users, along with an updated client, better support for external drives and enhanced recovery options."
Image Credit: BackBlaze Blog
The setup on this couldn't be any easier. Basically go to BackBlaze, download it and install and it begins backing up your files. Well, all the files except for your operating system, applications, temporary files and files exceeding 4GB in size. Need to shut down your computer? No problem. The next time you start it up, BackBlaze begins where it left off. You need to recover something? You can go to the website and do it from there, single files or all of your files. You can also buy a DVD-ROM or USB drive from BackBlaze and have the files shipped to you. You have 15 days to try it out for free. The price after that seems pretty reasonable for unlimited storage. Even though I use my own off site physical storage, I think I will continue with this. They certainly make it easy enough.
