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Comment by ausjke | Hacker News Reader

so this is cheaper than even glacier? and it supports client-side-encryption? and it will have a linux client (CLI is good enough)? if that's the case I'm sold.

in fact do you have the storage located in various locations? if so can I store a paid-copy to a separate location physically, just to be safe.

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Just to be clear, there are 3 different things: * Backblaze Online Backup - $5/month unlimited backup for Mac/Win; automatically does client-side-encryption * Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - $0.005/GB/mo for object storage (lower cost than Glacier, but we don't yet offer a client, though others are building) * Backblaze Storage Pod - the hardware that underlies both of these, which we also open source for anyone to use

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> automatically does client-side-encryption

But server-side decryption :(

I have been looking into Backblaze every time it was mentioned on a podcast, and as far as I can tell you still cannot download your backup and then decrypt it on your own machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_se...

Such a pity. I'm still stuck with CrashPlan (yuck!) for this one reason. I've been evaluating Arq, but I'm not yet confident enough to move all my/relatives' machines over.

good to know, seafile-like client-side encryption/decryption is key indeed. hope backblaze can do that one day.

looks like crashplan does support client-side encryption? is that true? does it require a local mirror disk/folder like dropbox does?

I'm really more interested in a long-term backup storage instead of a folder-sync storage, cold storage is fine but glacier seems a little hard to use and retrieval is expensive.

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