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 Computer
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
N2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.
$199
per month
Pricing
Backblaze Business Backup
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Editions & Modules
Monthly
$7.00
Per Computer
Yearly
$70.00
Per Computer
2-Year
$130.00
Per Computer
Basic
$199
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backblaze Business Backup
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
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
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze Business Backup
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
N2WS Backup & Recovery
8.6
Ratings
1% above category average
Universal recovery
10.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Instant recovery
5.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification
9.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Snapshots
9.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Management dashboard
3.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Platform support
10.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Recovery verification
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Business application protection
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Retention options
00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Encryption
00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
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).
N2WS Backup & Recovery is well suited for backing up aws and aws related services and workloads. The backup management is very easier using N2WS backup and recovery, restores are also fast and N2WS Backup & Recovery provides option to restore to different regions as well and that helps in Disaster recovery kind of testing scenarios
Backblaze offers unlimited backups for a low-low cost per computer. Essentially, it's $5 for an all you can eat back-up buffet.
The interface is simple - both on the computer side when you're configuring it. But more importantly, the online interface to search through your stored data is simple and efficient. Once you find what you're missing you can restore via downloading a zipped archive, requesting a USB drive, or you can have large data loaded onto a hard drive.
It has never let me down - which in the world of remote back-up is amazing.
Backblaze, once installed, resides in the app tray on the lower right of windows. It's just a small menu that takes you to your website to perform recovery operations. You also have to install their little download and unzipping app after you select files to restore. I would like to see a single backup and restore interface that runs locally and handles all those details in the background.
If you have to reinstall your computer, they additionally setup and charge you for a new license, even though you have an account, you can't simply log in and reconnect to it. I didn't find this out until I saw the charge on my credit card. Now that I have the data I need downloaded, I have to call them and have the original license canceled for a pro-rated (partial) credit. I was told this is how system administrators preferred to minimize downtime. As a small business owner, I found it irritating.
The only bad thing about Backblaze B2 is that to use it to its full ability, you need a third party to truly get any use out of it and its cheap price because they don't have their own software. Now, on the desktop endpoint back-up for non-B2 storage, they have a fantastic client with unlimited back-ups that is only $6 per month.
I've never had to reach out to customer support, but their periodic emails letting me know if a device is missing are very nice for informing me when something is wrong. Based on how helpful their system is, I would imagine their customer support is top-notch.
I previously used CrashPlan before they pivoted their business model. CrashPlan was fine, and has feature parity with Backblaze. I was motivated to move from CrashPlan to Backblaze for 2 reasons - 1, as they pivoted, they increased their cost, which was frustrating, and 2, because they had always had a java-based client that wasn't as performant as a native client. Backblaze is so unobtrusive because of its highly performant client, and I couldn't be happier.
For AWS based workloads N2WS Backup & Recovery suited best comparing the features and compatibility from the compared applications for backup testing. N2WS Backup & Recovery implementation is also faster and easy to setup. Restores is faster and also provided options to recover to different regions which is not available with the other backup applications at a easy level
The Backblaze service has provided a huge return on investment. We had a system fail, and it was very easy to have a drive with the backup data shipped to us for recovery.
The service has been very cost effective, allowing us to keep costs down while maintaining a good system integrity.
