How many people are aware of the "30 day" mechanism at Backblaze's backbone?
Seems pretty odd that this wasn't anywhere in the marketing or first few emails, only "simplicity" and "ease of mind", at least 11 years ago.
Not "pay a lot of attention to your inbox or we'll delete your entire life". What kind of company would market themselves as a consumer backup solution, then not hang onto the last snapshot of a failed drive? It's almost like they WANT their customers to have the worst of experiences...
Just someone paying BZ more than a hundred dollars a year to prevent needing to pay data recovery people thousands of dollars for a chance at recovery, only due to simple greed, now I get the opportunity to do both at once. Thanks BZ, for selling me that "peace of mind" that lulled me into a false sense of security. I literally paid a backup company to delete my most important and sentimental files. Great.
Posted May 19, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC