Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Backblaze Business Backup

Backblaze Business Backup

Overview

What is Backblaze Business Backup?

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).

Read more
Recent Reviews

TrustRadius Insights

Backblaze Business Backup is a versatile and reliable cloud backup solution that has gained recognition for its robust features and …
Continue reading

Set it and forget it

10 out of 10
November 12, 2019
Incentivized
I use Backblaze on my personal computer. It gives me an unlimited secure offsite backup of all my data, including connected storage …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Reviewer Pros & Cons

View all pros & cons
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing

Monthly

$7.00

Cloud
Per Computer

Yearly

$70.00

Cloud
Per Computer

2-Year

$130.00

Cloud
Per Computer

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.backblaze.com/business…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $7 per month
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is Backblaze Business Backup?

Backblaze Business Backup Competitors

Backblaze Business Backup Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Backblaze Business Backup starts at $7.

Carbonite Endpoint are common alternatives for Backblaze Business Backup.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.

The most common users of Backblaze Business Backup are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(62)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Backblaze Business Backup is a versatile and reliable cloud backup solution that has gained recognition for its robust features and seamless user experience. Users across various industries have found value in implementing Backblaze for their backup needs. Whether it is individual users looking to safeguard their personal data or businesses requiring comprehensive data protection, Backblaze has proven to be an effective solution to address these use cases.

For individual users, Backblaze offers worry-free cloud backup for laptops, eliminating the need to remember to plug in external drives and ensuring the safe storage of media files, photographs, videos, and important documents. The continuous and silent operation of the software in the background allows for automatic remote backups without disrupting regular computer activities. In case of incidents or computer issues, users can easily recover their lost files and restore their data with ease.

In a business setting, Backblaze proves invaluable for safeguarding critical data across multiple devices such as servers, laptops, and desktops. It serves as an essential backup solution for workstation backups in design and production teams, facilitating daily backups of workstations and external drives. Additionally, it can seamlessly integrate with other backup products, providing a cost-effective solution for efficient backups. By serving as redundant offsite backup, it complements existing on-site backups to enhance data safety company-wide.

Moreover, Backblaze is known for its reliability in specific industry use cases. For tax business owners, it offers nightly encrypted backups that guarantee secure recovery. Video and photo studios benefit from its ability to backup large raw and edited files securely off-site, ensuring protection against potential disasters. Even software companies include it as part of their onboarding process to ensure valuable data stored in computers is backed up physically and in the cloud.

The user-friendly online interface of Backblaze further simplifies file restoration when needed, enhancing accessibility and convenience for users. With its affordability and unlimited storage capabilities, Backblaze offers peace of mind and value for the price, serving as a critical safety net to protect valuable personal and business data.

Intuitive Interface: Users have consistently praised the intuitive interface of Backblaze, with many stating that it is easy to navigate and use efficiently. Some users have mentioned that they appreciate how simple it is to exclude specific items from the backup process, giving them more control over what gets backed up.

Affordability: Many reviewers have highlighted the low cost of Backblaze as a major advantage. They feel that it offers excellent value for the price, particularly because it provides unlimited backups per computer at an affordable rate. This makes Backblaze a cost-effective solution for businesses and individuals with large amounts of data to back up.

Reliability and Automation: The reliability and automation features of Backblaze have garnered positive feedback from users. Reviewers appreciate that Backblaze consistently performs daily backups without any user intervention, providing peace of mind knowing their data is being backed up regularly. Additionally, users find it convenient that they can customize a backup time that suits their preferences, optimizing the backup process without disrupting their work.

Limited User Interface: Some users have expressed that the user interface of Backblaze is limited compared to other solutions, such as CrashPlan. They feel that Backblaze lacks certain features and controls, which impacts their overall experience.

Inconvenient Seeded Backup Option: Several users have found it inconvenient that Backblaze does not offer a seeded backup option. This can be particularly challenging for users with a large number of files to backup, as it requires them to upload all data directly from their devices rather than using an external hard drive.

Inability to Back Up Network Shares: A drawback mentioned by some reviewers is that Backblaze cannot back up network shares. This limitation can be problematic for users who rely on devices like Synology NAS servers or similar systems for storage and file sharing within their networks.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-25 of 29)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I recommend it on a constant basis. It's bailed me out more than once in the past six years, and I'm never worried about what would happen if my MacBook were to crash. I love that there's no limit to how much you can back up and it'll even back up external drives. I honestly can't think of a scenario where Backblaze wouldn't work well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze's "set it and forget it' interface is ideal for home users. In addition, the $50/year pricing is very competitive. Most business should find Backblaze as a very good backup solution, but in cases where a backup archive needs to be kept indefinitely, alternative solutions should be looked at (specifically CrashPlan - though it is significantly more expensive at $10/month).
Mochammad Zachri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In My Opinion, Backblaze is good to be used as secondary storage server . Our team has the same opinion, we can use another storage server as primary storage server. We could backup to Backblaze storage server, and use it for Internal Usage to our storage sharing in our company and integrate it with team collaboration apps (rocket chat)
Justin Esgar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great for anyone, including enterprise. This will be great for backing up your own computer, as well as your entire companies computers. Web management makes it easy to manage computers, as well as restoring data remotely. You can even set what types of files are backed up, to ensure any non-critical files are not backed up.
Samantha Crawford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze is great for drives that are always connected. If you have to unplug the external hard drive to use a USB, the drive name may change and stop backing up the external drive after plugging it back in. I bought a USB hub so I could keep my drives plugged in.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have small files infrequently backed up, it's a good tool. A lot of large files require an expensive appliance to lift the data to the cloud or too much time to upload. The ability to upload multiple large files using any integration with a GUI (like Cyberduck) exists but fails.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
[Backblaze] is great for off-site managed backups that are file level. Where it doesn't work is if you want a full image backup or backing up servers gets in the "not-ideal" direction.

Backblaze has a great use case and as long as you stick in the file-level backup, all is great!
Ed Esposito | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I tried the service twice and nothing improved.

Their customer service is a total waste of time. They lie about throttling speed even though my computer upload speed is over 900 mbps and their service never went above 2 mbps.
Ellwood Howard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Essentially Backblaze is a secure off-site data backup and restoration software. It does that job, and it does that job well. That's the scenario it was designed to be used in, and it does it exceptionally well. I find that it is likely best suited for medium to large businesses that have several users for a networked computer system with multiple computers on a server. If you are a small business like myself where it's me myself and I, it's a little cumbersome to recover data and is perhaps less appropriate. What greatly attracted me to it was its price, which, for me, was $99 for an entire year. With that, I can put up with a little bit of cumbersome.
December 13, 2019

Backblaze is great!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze B2 is perfectly suited for backups for smaller clients. It's a great product and very cost-effective when paired with another endpoint solution, but with it comes more management and more risk. The burden of testing and support is on the user and not on the cloud provider, unlike a more expensive cloud backup location.
November 12, 2019

Set it and forget it

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For "set it and forget it" cloud/offsite backup, it's very nice. I run a home server with an attached RAID array for all my files, and it is backed up automatically to Backblaze. This gives me peace-of-mind and after the initial upload was done, I don't even notice it. For consumer NAS devices, they offer plugins to back up to their object storage solution (B2), which is more expensive than the personal device plan but necessary for those devices.
Chris Gabriel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm not familiar with deploying the application to a large user base but for a single computer, signup and setup is supremely easy. The price point makes Backblaze an easy choice for the additional comfort. Love to know I can have a fresh drive sent to me if I've ever had a local failure.
Chris Tuley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze's entry level plan is perfect for solo entrepreneurs and individuals who need a no-nonsense, cloud based backup, that is reliable and safe. Backblaze has expanded offerings for more families, computers, and larger businesses. I have no doubt it would be incredible for larger businesses, but I cannot personally attest to it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 02, 2019

Decent value for backup

Calin Popescu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze is perfectly suited for small businesses primarily concerned with maintaining files. The overall system seems to work well and the fact files can be retrieved prior to an issue is a really great tool. At this time Backblaze has not been tested thoroughly (a ransomware attack for example - this is where versioning would be great to be made more clear), the overall backup system seems to be good. Deleted files were found as historical records are kept from the beginning of time which can be very good for organizations looking to backup files primarily.
Rob Gokee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've had another service I used as a backup (I won't name names, but it rhymes with FlopFox) lose files that for some reason weren't recoverable. In one case, it was every photo from the last decade. Multiple times, Backblaze had the files, and I had them back within an hour. Their customer service is fast at responding, and I've never lost data with them.
August 14, 2019

Highest Margin Ever!

Daniel Cauley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is suited best when you have lots of endpoints that don't contain sensitive client data or financial data that need server-side encryption and encryption during the transport of the data. The software is not HIPAA compliant. It really shines when the client has many hundreds of gigabytes of data to backup.
June 23, 2019

I am a convert!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze is well suited to individuals who have a relatively large volume/size of critical files, so that they exceed the file size limits of the "free" or "freemium" backup solutions (such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive and MEGASync).
I think it is also well suited to individuals who are relatively "forgetful" and would not drag and drop (or save) their files to the applicable back-up folder. For a long time, I was skeptical about the structure of backing up my whole hard drive -- there are lots of system files or program files that I don't actually need backed-up. But now I have a little bit of a piece of mind that, even if there is important data saved deep in the crevices of Windows, that it has been backed-up should I ever need to recover it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's good on Macs but bad on Windows. I ended up having to disable it because it was waking up my Windows computer in the middle of the night, draining all the battery, and I would come into work in the morning with a dead computer and all the documents that I was working on hadn't been saved. On a Mac I have had no problems like this at all.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your entire workspace is located on your computer, then it's great. However, if you rely on external devices (drives, etc.), then it can get complicated, or even not work at all. Also, personally, I think it makes sense to treat an online backup solution as an *additional* help –– not as a replacement for backup on a physical drive.
Return to navigation