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Over the last couple of weeks I completely reworked by backup strategy. Losing data is a big fear of mine and I want to make my system as reasonably bulletpr.

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Backblaze Vs Time Machine

  • Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services. Personal online backup to enterprise scale data storage solutions.
  • The Time Machine backup is now being synced to Backblaze B2. This can take a few minutes or much longer depending on the size of the initial Time Machine backup. Each Time Machine backup is updated, the changes will be done on the Synology NAS and then synced automatically to Backblaze B2. You can close your Synology NAS device.
  • Backblaze doesn't install any drivers and opens any files it backs up as read only so your computer is kept stable. Backblaze also works great running side-by-side with Apple Time Machine for added security.

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Shelby1975 wrote:
I use time machine, and have been very pleased with it. I would also like to use Backblaze for off site backup. Will these two work together and not cause any problems?

In general, they should stay out of each other's way.
Be sure BackBlaze is not trying to back up your Time Machine backups (I understand that's automatic, but it won't hurt to check).
I don't know exactly how it works, but some such apps keep some fairly large files on your system, apparently some sort of indexing or status data, that changes rapidly. By default, Time Machine will back that up, which may result in large TM backups (and backing-it up likely won't accomplish anything anyway). So check their documentation, and/or see #A2 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum), for a couple of apps that will show exactly what's backed-up. If you find something like that, exclude those files/folders from Time Machine, per #10 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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Backblaze Time Machine

Dec 24, 2010 8:39 AM