Blackblaze first backup to take 166 days???

[dimme]

I have been using crashplan for 6 years and have about 1.4 TB of data backed up. With the new crashplan service I thought it may be time for something different. Crashplan does not offer restore via a hard drive anymore but backblaze does, also they are a bit cheaper I am trying out backblaze and the first backup is dog slow. I have a descent amount of bandwidth about 10.5Mbps up. Is this normal for backblaze? Should I be looking at something else?

 

[Fishrrman]

"Should I be looking at something else?"

Yes.
Get TWO 2tb hard drives.
Get CarbonCopyCloner.
Use CCC to create TWO cloned backups of your source drive.

Keep the first clone "within arm's reach" for emergencies.
Keep the second clone in a DIFFERENT BUILDING, it will become your "offsite backup" in case of a disaster at the computer's location.

This won't take 166 days, and if you ever need to get all that data back, it won't take 166 more days.

 

[willmtaylor]

"Should I be looking at something else?"

Yes.
Get TWO 2tb hard drives.
Get CarbonCopyCloner.
Use CCC to create TWO cloned backups of your source drive.

Keep the first clone "within arm's reach" for emergencies.
Keep the second clone in a DIFFERENT BUILDING, it will become your "offsite backup" in case of a disaster at the computer's location.

This won't take 166 days, and if you ever need to get all that data back, it won't take 166 more days.

Also, you pay ONCE for the hardware and not MONTHLY for the service.

 

[chrfr]

I have been using crashplan for 6 years and have about 1.4 TB of data backed up. With the new crashplan service I thought it may be time for something different. Crashplan does not offer restore via a hard drive anymore but backblaze does, also they are a bit cheaper I am trying out backblaze and the first backup is dog slow. I have a descent amount of bandwidth about 10.5Mbps up. Is this normal for backblaze? Should I be looking at something else?

Have you looked at this document?
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us...-to-optimize-your-settings-for-faster-uploads
The following page is linked off that one and has some more specifics.

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666258-Performance-Settings-Mac-

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

You have far more data backing up, but I use BB for a half dozen Macs at work which use roughly 100-200 GB each, no external drives, and their initial backups took 3 days tops over a combination of Wi-Fi and Ethernet. 166 days is way too high...does BB allow you to send them a seed drive with an initial backup?
ETA
Looks like no
https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/adx37f/shipping_a_drive_to_seed_backup/