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Is Backblaze a reliable provider?
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I am a happy backblaze user and generally I’ve only heard good things about them.
They do have multiple data centers and they are operating B2B products too.
Is there anything in particular that would make you think they could be unreliable?
I'm just afraid of data loss, but I also know that that is unlikely. I have a local backup but sometimes I feel like that's not enough, unfortunately my budget is also tight which means I can't spend too much on replicated buckets/another cloud provider with a complete backup etc.
Also, have you ever faced the issue where you're pushing files to backblaze with rclone and there are many failed uploads (rclone retries them eventually after reaching the end of the queue), which is something I've never had with S3. Well, you get what you pay for I suppose.