If you choose this level of security, DO NOT FORGET that passphrase because there is no possible way to "recover" it, and without it your files are GONE. For years your files are encrypted at rest where even if Backblaze is ordered by government subpoena to hand over your files Backblaze cannot comply even if we wanted to, we have no way to decrypt your files. You only provide the "passphrase' in the event of preparing a restore, and then your passphrase is never stored on disk anywhere at Backblaze, it is held in RAM. Without the passphrase your files cannot be decrypted. In this mode, your account is protected with your username, password, 2-factor like the above "security level 2", but also an ADDITIONAL "unrecoverable" passphrase that Backblaze does not know in any way, shape, or form for years. ![]() Security Level 3 - Backblaze Personal Backup with a "custom" unrecoverable private encryption key. Some things you want BACK more than you want to destroy the files in the event of a hacker breach, or if you forget your password. It errors on the side of being able to recover the data no matter what. This is a good choice for a customer who is not super overly concerned about hackers possibly getting their data, and just wants to backup a public website like (which anybody could get from the website anyway), or some photos of their wedding. If you use 2-factor (like we recommend), a hacker with your username and password will STILL not be able to gain access to your files. This particular level of security has the advantage (or disadvantage to the security sensitive) that if you forget your password, you can "recover" it through your email account. You can ALSO prepare an encrypted USB restore hard drive to be sent to your home. In this mode, all it takes to decrypt your backup is to sign into the Backblaze website with your username and password, and 2-factor verification, and you can prepare a ZIP file restore to download. In this level of security, your Online Backup is secured by your username and password, and every file is "encrypted at rest" (all the files are always encrypted when stored on disk). This is a good choice for the customers who would rather error on the side of recovering their passwords than losing all their backups. Security Level 2 - username/password/2-factor. These are totally open files for anybody to download. Backblaze B2 can serve public websites, on purpose, the way stuff that you want to go viral and share with everybody. Here are the four levels of security Backblaze offers, most of this is from this post 18 days ago I wrote. If you want zero knowledge, choose it at Backblaze! But some customers have other requirements, and you are insisting that we remove part of our product line up that is very useful to other people. If you read YOUR TOP LINK from TWO YEARS AGO I explain that Backblaze specifically offers 4 levels of security, one of which is Zero Knowledge, and we think that is a perfectly valid decision for some customers. This is not our position, and I feel it is disingenuous of you to say that. > Zero-knowledge encryption? You don’t need that. Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so you should check up to see if what I say is true and keep me honest. ![]() The service is still in private beta, but you can get access to the trial (15 days free) at. You can't even do a restore of all your data over the Web: You can get up to 1GB of data downloaded at a time (in Zip files-not exactly user-friendly), or 4.7GB on a DVD (for a fee), or, in a real catastrophe, up to 160GB on a USB hard drive sent by overnight mail to you (for more of a fee, but not a usurious one). Since the app doesn't back up your entire PC, you can't use it to do a bare-metal rebuild of a machine from backup. And I'm not impressed by the restore services. It's not a sharing or a syncing platform. Backblaze is the backup app you recommend to your mom, or anyone else who should be backing up their computer but is either too scared of the technicalities or too lazy to do the work necessary to make sure the app grabs all the files it needs to.īackblaze will let users access files they've backed up from its Web site, but it is not designed for that. If you want a highly configurable backup solution, there are plenty of competitive options (Mozy, for instance, or Carbonite, which I use).
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