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Glen, thanks for posting!

I'm a backup customer of Backblaze (have been for years) and I backup five of my families computers.

I'd really like it if your online restore feature would let me buy multiple backups on a single hard drive as an option. I've considered buying a hard drive with my backups from your company multiple times but I wouldn't pay the premium you ask without being able to have all five computers on the drive.

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Thanks for the suggestion (and for being a customer.) We've contemplated adding functionality to send the Backblaze laptop/desktop restore to your Backblaze B2 account. Then you could put multiple restores in a 'snapshot' and get that delivered on a drive. Useful?

FWIW, you can return the drive for a full refund.

I feel like gp wants to keep a hdd as a third copy of the backup somewhere safe under their physical control.

This is prohibitively expensive to do for multiple computers at once, and gp would prefer a single hdd that has a copy of the backup for multiple computers, which would reduce the cost.

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