It’s worth noting that Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman tells me that he remains fully committed to offering unlimited backups without any speed restrictions.Īs for the new file sharing feature, Backblaze now allows its users to publicly share any of their backed up files through its B2 service. in 2017, not everybody has access to these kinds of fast connections. The company says that its service can now achieve backups of up to 100 Mbps, though in the infrastructure backwater that is most the U.S. On a slow connection, you don’t want to have to use too many parallel threads, but on a fast connection, you may want as many as possible. Backblaze for Mac and PC now makes smarter decisions about how many simultaneous upload connections it can handle. The highlights here are clearly the increased speed and the new file sharing feature. This new version introduces faster backups and restores, as well as improved browsing speed, image previews on the restore page and a new file sharing feature backed by the company’s B2 Cloud Storage service.

Today, the company launched version 5.0 of its service and desktop clients. Backblaze is one of the few unlimited backup services standing - in part because of its prowess in securing its own hard drives and building its own cloud services.

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