Backblaze headquartered in San Mateo, California offers continuous, automatic cloud backup for personal and business use. Backblaze Business Backup consists of cloud solutions to safeguard systems and files (e.g Veeam, Servers, NAS, Workstations).
$7
per month
Arcserve ShadowProtect
Score 6.5 out of 10
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ShadowProtect, from Arcserve company StorageCraft (merged in March of 2021), supports business continuity with data backup and system protection; the vendor boasts fast system restore capabilities relative to other similar solutions.
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Pricing
Backblaze Business Backup
Arcserve ShadowProtect
Editions & Modules
Monthly
$7.00
Per Computer
Yearly
$70.00
Per Computer
2-Year
$130.00
Per Computer
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Backblaze Business Backup
Arcserve ShadowProtect
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Backblaze Business Backup
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Features
Backblaze Business Backup
Arcserve ShadowProtect
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze Business Backup
7.4
2 Ratings
15% below category average
Arcserve ShadowProtect
7.4
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Universal recovery
8.12 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Instant recovery
5.01 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification
8.12 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Backup to the cloud
9.12 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression
2.01 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Snapshots
9.02 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment
8.01 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Management dashboard
5.82 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Platform support
6.22 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Retention options
10.01 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Encryption
10.01 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Recovery verification
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Business application protection
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations
00 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze Business Backup
7.8
3 Ratings
8% below category average
Arcserve ShadowProtect
8.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Continuous data protection
7.63 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Replication
7.02 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics
7.43 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities
10.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery
7.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze does one thing and does one thing well: backup. If you recognize it for what it is, you will be very happy with it as an unobtrusive off-site backup solution. If, however, you want full-featured endpoint protection, you'll want to look elsewhere. For me and my needs, Backblaze provides the right amount of protection at a cheap price. You can't beat it.
In situations where business continuity needs are high, ShadowProtect backups provide the ability to keep operations running with very minimal downtime, even in situations like crypto-locked data. If a backup server is set up in an environment to resume a live server from backup, this is even more helpful. In situations where clients don't care as much about quickly recovering their data, they can go without a solution like this.
Backblaze utilizes a native app across platforms vs. a javascript app you find with other backup services (CrashPlan being one of them). Native apps function better and have a better user interface than comparable javascript apps.
Backblaze has an intuitive interface that automatically backs everything up from your computer but allows you to easily exclude items you don't want or need to backup (applications, system files, etc.).
Backblaze has a built-in bandwidth cap and monitor allowing you to limit how much data is backed up on a daily basis to prevent going over ISP data caps or utilizing all of your upload bandwidth.
User management isn't the greatest. We had the choice of either a site license under one email address, or a domain license, allowing users to log in with their own email address, however there's no management for this option. I can see metrics of the users' backup, but I can't manage the accounts in any way.
As stated in my review, Backblaze simply works and works simply. You install it. It runs silently in the background storing and safeguarding all your computer data remotely. You seldom notice it until you've lost something you need - then you can quickly find it online using their interface and restore it - which is what's really important.
They answered any questions I had accurately and politely. I prefer to call a phone number and get a human on the phone, but they prefer email and chat. I understand they have business profits to consider, so it makes sense.
We don’t need support often, but when we do, the support has been strong. Sometimes it is hard to determine how to access support for the exact issue we are having. There are a decent forum and online ticketing system. Support for the cloud center seems to be provided only by phone, though.
It's honestly been so long that I've been using Backblaze - maybe 10+ years - that I don't even remember other options I compared it to way back when. I've had a subscription on all of my personal machines for years, and we've used it on all of our machines at my job for the past six.
We have been with Shadowprotect for 5 years and are now only moving off of them due to limited functionality and Shadowprotect doubling our billing.
The product now requires a lot more babysitting so I have one person just stuck managing backups, which is not a fulfilling job and hard to keep someone in that seat.
While Shadowprotect has been fantastic for years, it is time for us to move on to something that makes financial sense and requires less labour.
Storagecraft Cloud is fairly expensive compared to competitors.
