BackBlaze announces private beta version of its Mac software
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 9, 2008 at 10:07am
BackBlaze has announced a private beta launch of its Mac back-up software today. And the company is offering Macsimum News readers a chance to test it drive by going here.
Gleb Budman of Backblaze told Macsimum News that the service provides the only “backup everything” online backup service (similar to Time Machine, but online)—and does it with unlimited storage for IS$5 per month. Ninety-four percent of users do nothing to regularly backup and we’re on a mission to change that, he adds/.
“When you ask anyone why they don’t backup, the answer is always the same—‘it’s too hard’ and when we dug into that, it was typically because the setup required picking which files and folders to backup—and users would get stuck there,” Budman says. “So we flipped the model on its head and said ‘we’re going to backup everything unless you explicitly exclude it.’ By default we exclude your operating system, apps, cache/temp files, etc.”
Doing this enabled Backblaze to simplify the entire setup experience to: download, enter an email address and a password, and that’s it. The underlying service has been developed cross-platform, and the user interface is written natively on each operating system. The Windows version launched in September. The Mac version supports Intel-based systems running Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.
The service backs up continuously and is localized in 11 languages. Data is fully encrypted. Restoration is available via web download or FedEx a DVD or USB hard drive
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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