![]() So you prepare a few more batches, still with that same less than responsive interface, and eventually you hit the limit of 5 restores being prepared at once. This is a bit more of a big deal, or - as you might find out later - a very big deal. Unless you grabbed yourself a coffee in the meantime and now are staring at a login screen again because Backblaze has one of the shortest session expiration times I've seen (something like 20-30 minutes) and no "Remember me" button. Wait, didn't you just provide that? Well, yes, and your backup is decrypted, but on server 0002, and this time the load balancer decided to get you onto server 0014. You click back to the Restore screen and, if you have your backup encrypted, it asks you for the encryption key again. not very good - nobody at Backblaze seems to have heard the word "asynchronous" and the UI is blocked on requests to the backend, so not only do you not get instant feedback on your current archive size, you don't even see your checkboxes get checked until the requests complete.īut let's say you've checked what you need for your first batch, got close enough to 500GB and started preparing your. ![]() At that point you may also notice that the interface to prepare restores is. Then you'll discover that there's absolutely zero assistance for you to split your data up - you need to manually pick out files and folders to include and watch the total size (and be aware that this 500GB is decimal). zip - a pain since it means you need to split up your data, but not an unreasonable limitation, if a little on the small side. The first thing you'll run into is the 500GB limit for a single. The process is deceptively simple if you've never actually tried to go through it - either download single files directly, or select what you need and prepare a. ![]() (A series of mistakes, I'm aware, but it all seemed like a good idea at the time). ![]() Instead of making a local copy I decided to fetch the data back from Backblaze, and since I'm located in Europe, instead of ordering drives and paying duty for them I opted for the download method. So I have my 40TB hoard of data backed up to Backblaze, and with the recent acquisition of two more drives I needed to wipe my storage pool to switch it over from a simple one to a parity one. ![]()
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