

There you may enable or disable entire drives, add or remove exclusions, and enable the private encryption key for that extra bit of security. Tip: I suggest you hit Pause Backup and open the Settings before any file transfers. This may appeal to some users who just want their files to be uploaded to online storage for safe keeping, but it may not be enough for tech-savvy users who prefer more control over the programs they run.īasically, what happens when you start the program is that BackBlaze runs an inventory scan on all available drives to upload files to the company's cloud servers.

If you use a very restrictive firewall, you need to allow bztransmit64.exe and bztransmit.exe as the programs are used for file transfers. The Windows client is 32-bit and 64-bit, and needs to be installed. We have downloaded the Windows client and used it for the test on a Windows 10 Pro machine. You may download the client for Windows or Mac then.

Other payment options, PayPal for instance, are not supported. The sign up process is straightforward, and you are asked to pick a plan and use either a credit card or a gift card as the payment method. Backblaze Personal Backup reviewīackblaze offers software programs for Windows and Mac, Android and iOS applications, and a web interface that customers may use to manage backed up files and restore them.

We signed up for a Personal Backup plan at Backblaze, and this review is about our experience with the process, the software, and the service in general. Cost is $0.005 per GB per month for storage and download after the first 10 GB. May use Backblaze's storage pods do build in-house backup servers.
