{"slug": "backblaze-b2", "name": "Backblaze B2", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 11, "warners": 0, "score": 5.429, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-03-26", "latest": "2026-10-05", "why": "Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 6, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2.", "icon": true, "domain": "backblaze.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Backblaze B2"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 774991250, "item_id": 48436953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436953", "by": "latchkey", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "especially if you're using B2 on the backend", "excerpt": "If you're on a Mac, I've been hacking on my own fork of Restic Scheduler [0] to make it work almost exactly like Backblaze Desktop, except better (and open source). I wanted something I could just install as a menubar app, point it at my home directory, and forget. Turns out doing it this way is about half the yearly cost of BD, and way better performance. I've finally gotten it to the point where it actually works p", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backrest \u2013 a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup"}, {"id": 764296945, "item_id": 47768559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768559", "by": "mk12", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2.", "excerpt": "Glad I switched from their personal computer backup to using restic + B2 a while ago. Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2. It takes less than a minute and I have complete control over the exclusions and retention. And I can easily switch off B2 to something else if I want.", "context": "has a homelab", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 764282705, "item_id": 47767669, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767669", "by": "devnulled", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Arq +  Backblaze storage and I think my monthly bill is very low", "excerpt": "I highly recommend switching to something more like Arq and then using whatever backend storage that you want. There are probably some other open source ways to do it, etc, but Arq scratches the itch of having control over your backups and putting them where you want with a GUI to easily configure/keep track of what is going on. Maybe there's something newer/better now (and I bought lifetime licenses of it long ago),", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 764228705, "item_id": 47764294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764294", "by": "corndoge", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like backblaze for backups, but I use restic and b2.", "excerpt": "I like backblaze for backups, but I use restic and b2. You get what you pay for. Really lame behavior from backblaze as I always recommended their native backup solution to others and now need to reconsider.", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "mk12", "context": "has a homelab", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768559", "date": "2026-04-14"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["backup storage", "object storage", "music file storage", "offsite email backup", "offsite photo backups"], "compared": [{"slug": "backblaze", "name": "Backblaze", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "restic", "name": "restic", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "arq", "name": "Arq", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762864", "title": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932236", "title": "The Tao of Backup", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851693", "title": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517448", "title": "Fastpotify", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411717", "title": "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005787", "title": "The startup's Postgres survival guide", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 799387153, "item_id": 49961697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961697", "by": "nxobject", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use Backblaze B2, which had cheaper egress", "excerpt": "It isn't too expensive for my use case \u2013 per month, I retrieve about 500GB a month from Glacier Instant Retrieval to verify, which costs ~$15. Combined with other costs, my monthly bill is ~$50. I used to use Backblaze B2, which had cheaper egress at the cost of slightly more expensive storage (I think ~$5/TB/mo, with free egress up to 3x all current storage?) So I paid $20. But at some point AWS opened a datacenter ", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Tao of Backup"}, {"id": 798083106, "item_id": 49880194, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880194", "by": "bojangleslover", "date": "2026-09-28", "stance": "compare", "quote": "B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps", "excerpt": "> there is no fundamental technological barrier to building a true SSD-based, disaggregated storage service with the durability, capacity, and pricing profile needed to serve as a general-purpose replacement for S3 There are a lot of very competitive alternatives around today are largely unknown. For example B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps, Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fee", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"}, {"id": 792341490, "item_id": 49521343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521343", "by": "cdrnsf", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I mount my music from a B2 bucket", "excerpt": "I've been using Navidrome for a while and love it (long enough to have written an iOS + macOS client). I mount my music from a B2 bucket and use a shell script to sync additions to it. AudioMuse-AI does a great job generating playlists and populating similar artists. There are lyrics plugins, an Apple Music plugin that can populate metadata and on and on. It's a great system and free from the catalogue rot and slop t", "context": "", "use_case": "music file storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastpotify"}, {"id": 790676385, "item_id": 49417274, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49417274", "by": "cube00", "date": "2026-08-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I backup with a scheduled rclone to B2", "excerpt": "Not OP but I backup with a scheduled rclone to B2 and rsync to my local storage at home so I have the required three copies. I use the Maildir format so each message is its own file making it atomic.", "context": "", "use_case": "offsite email backup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)"}, {"id": 784132609, "item_id": 49008288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008288", "by": "rsyring", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We have it backing up to Backblaze B2 (S3 like).", "excerpt": "FWIW, we use: https://pgbackrest.org/ Offers point-in-time recovery which is an improvement over a custom solution we used to have which gave us nightly backups. We have it backing up to Backblaze B2 (S3 like). Was relatively easy to setup and no problems really.", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The startup's Postgres survival guide"}, {"id": 774991250, "item_id": 48436953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436953", "by": "latchkey", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "especially if you're using B2 on the backend", "excerpt": "If you're on a Mac, I've been hacking on my own fork of Restic Scheduler [0] to make it work almost exactly like Backblaze Desktop, except better (and open source). I wanted something I could just install as a menubar app, point it at my home directory, and forget. Turns out doing it this way is about half the yearly cost of BD, and way better performance. I've finally gotten it to the point where it actually works p", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backrest \u2013 a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup"}, {"id": 764296945, "item_id": 47768559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768559", "by": "mk12", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2.", "excerpt": "Glad I switched from their personal computer backup to using restic + B2 a while ago. Every night my laptop and homelab both back up to each other and to B2. It takes less than a minute and I have complete control over the exclusions and retention. And I can easily switch off B2 to something else if I want.", "context": "has a homelab", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 764282705, "item_id": 47767669, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767669", "by": "devnulled", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Arq +  Backblaze storage and I think my monthly bill is very low", "excerpt": "I highly recommend switching to something more like Arq and then using whatever backend storage that you want. There are probably some other open source ways to do it, etc, but Arq scratches the itch of having control over your backups and putting them where you want with a GUI to easily configure/keep track of what is going on. Maybe there's something newer/better now (and I bought lifetime licenses of it long ago),", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 764260833, "item_id": 47766302, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766302", "by": "decadefade", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "This is why I use Arq with Backblaze.", "excerpt": "This is why I use Arq with Backblaze. They just see a bunch of encrypted files with random GUID filenames. They don't need to know what I'm backing up, just that I am backing it up.", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 764228705, "item_id": 47764294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764294", "by": "corndoge", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like backblaze for backups, but I use restic and b2.", "excerpt": "I like backblaze for backups, but I use restic and b2. You get what you pay for. Really lame behavior from backblaze as I always recommended their native backup solution to others and now need to reconsider.", "context": "", "use_case": "backup storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 760471184, "item_id": 47529449, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529449", "by": "DemiGuru", "date": "2026-03-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use offsite backups for that very scenario - From nextcloud (private) to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.", "excerpt": "I use offsite backups for that very scenario - From nextcloud (private) to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.", "context": "", "use_case": "offsite photo backups", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}