Since a customer using a forever list would be presented with an unusably long drop-down, they've added a date-picker to help with selecting a range of dates to show restore points between. Previously Backblaze presented users with a drop-down menu to select the date to restore from. With a charming attention to detail, Backblaze went to some lengths to make sure everyone knows that change will also have a small impact on current workflows. With version 7.0, Backblaze is giving customers the option of extending their version history back either one year or forever, at an increased cost compared to their current and still default behavior.

It's probably this second use case that has been driving the many requests to extend the version history duration Backblaze has been getting. This feature is also useful for recovering back to a known good state when a customer makes a change they later decide they want to revert.

Backblaze also takes advantage of their cloud infrastructure to gather and publish some rather interesting information on HDD reliability.īackblaze has previously kept a 30-day version history of customers' backed up files to protect against accidental deletion. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and provides software to back your data up to Backblaze’s B2 Cloud Storage. Backblaze will be slowly rolling out automatic updates to their customers over the coming weeks, but you can also trigger a manual update to get the new features immediately. The newest version of Backblaze’s cloud backup software includes additional version history options, better security including improved, Single Sign-on (SSO) support, and added support for Catalina. Today, Backblaze released Backblaze Cloud Backup 7.0.

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