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I use backblaze for my backups with restic and enjoy it, but their service is just so slow I'm now looking at giving digitalocean a try instead. Transfers both

by gregf 9y ago

I use backblaze for my backups with restic and enjoy it, but their service is just so slow I'm now looking at giving digitalocean a try instead. Transfers both up and down are painfully slow even on a 1Gbit connection.

votepaunchy 9y ago
Where do you connect from? Backblaze only has one datacenter, in Sacramento, CA [1]. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/our-secret-data-center/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/our-secret-data-center/
- atYevP 9y ago
  Yev from Backblaze here -> We have 3 data centers located in Sacramento and Phoenix, hoping to increase that soon!
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znelis 9y ago
Have you tried enabling more threads (add -o b2.connections=$number)? It improved enough to make it ok for my (admittedly tiny) backup needs. The process of creating a new snapshot is still really slow though, but I'm not sure that is B2's fault.
- gregf 9y ago
  I'll give this a go thanks