Just download in a regular browser like Chrome Firefox, and pray. Monitor the download frequently, it’s not smart enough to resume after a disconnection.
#Backblaze download install#
Install Backblaze Downloader and start downloading into either the D: or E: drive.In your security group, allow all ICMP.Large instances are expensive but will download your files much faster. Your instance will be closer to Backblaze in the Bay Area and the instances there offer gigabit connections. Start a large instance with the ami-67095822 image (Windows Server 2003, instance storage), in the US West region.After much experimenting with multiple regions and settings, here is my advice: I don’t happen to have a Windows box on a fast internet connection with enough disk space, so I set up an Amazon EC2 instance for this. (I wasn't able to resume in any other way, they don’t seem to accept HTTP byte ranges.) Which means downloading on a Windows machine. So you will need the Backblaze Downloader, a truly shitty Windows program that is able to resume downloads. I’ve tried it: the connection is always dropped after a few hours. This means actually downloading a 215 GB file from them.īackblaze cannot reliably serve you files larger than 60 GB or so. They recommend splitting your restores up into chunks of about 20 GB, but that’s a big hassle because you can only have 2 active restores at a time, and I didn't want to risk missing anything in my manual splitting procedure. For sizes up to 400 GB, they offer to mail you a USB hard drive for $199, but I didn’t want to pay that much when downloading a Zip file is much cheaper. I have about 215 GB of data on Backblaze. I wanted to make sure I have all my backups in order, which meant restoring my Backblaze backup too. In addition to my Time Machine and SuperDuper! backups, I use Backblaze for online backup. My computer was recently destroyed from water damage in a thunderstorm, so I had to recover my backups.
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