3 months free unlimited backups for the first 66,670 people to sign up. Could be good I guess for people who were thinking about getting a cloud backup solution but would like to try it out first.
Offer expires at about 5:59 pm AEDT on 1/04/2013
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• 3 months of Backblaze is a $15 value.
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• Sign-ups on this page must occur between March 27, 2013 00:00 PDT and March 31, 2013 11:59pm PDT.
• All valid entrants will be provided unique codes on a first-in first-out basis and codes must be activated within 30 days of receipt.
• We reserve the right to dispense codes over an extended period of time, up to one year, to ensure proper performance of the Backblaze service to our customers.
The problem with these online backup services is that most Australians have crap upload speeds.
Using the calculator on their site, I can only upload 16GB a day (using 100% of my upload bandwidth). I'm on 100Mb/s download 2Mb/s upload Telstra "Ultimate" Cable plan.
To upload a single copy of my 5TB backup server would take ~312 days. Which would be 10 months out of date by the time I finished!
BTW If I had a house fire the day after I finished my 10 month upload and had to download everything again, it would take 89 days (for some reason my 100Mb/s connection is rated at 5.37 with them) to download everything again - however my 500GB/month download limit means it would take 10 months worth of allowance!
If you only had to back up a single small SSD, or had an NBN 100/40 connection it might work out for you. For me, it just doesn't add up.