Oh, if anything "fails", Backblaze is pretty resilient in that it would spend a couple days and "fix" whatever needs to be fixed. Essentially it goes as fast as your hard drive can read data and doesn't use any internet bandwidth. It is downloading your 'Backup State' which is the entire history of everything you backed up previously. stuck at downloading its been hours and still nothing Let it run up to 24 hours straight.
#BACKBLAZE INHERIT BACKUP STATE CODE#
Don't panic when it suddenly says it will re-upload the whole drive, it won't. Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze and wrote a lot of the Inherit Backup State code running in your client. You’ll find more information on Backblaze’s support site. Just make sure these drives selected for backup after reinstalling Backblaze. Data backed up to external drives should be included in this Backup State as well. you will find something interesting called Inherit Backup State. It’s important to use Inherit Backup State, otherwise it will be treated as a new backup. So if "j:" is a 4 TByte drive, this could take HOURS, but zero data will be actually transmitted to the Backblaze datacenter during this time, and it will go "insanely fast" (faster than your internet connection could handle). The most important thing after successfully doing an 'Inherit Backup State' is to not panic and turn off all power savings modes on your computer and let your computer run for like 6 hours in 'Continuously' backup schedule. Backblaze Cloud Backup is no doubt one of the best cloud storage service available.
#BACKBLAZE INHERIT BACKUP STATE DOWNLOAD#
I edited the download URL in startapp.sh to the one I mentioned and re-built the container. However, to make absolutely sure they are the same files for real, Backblaze must read EVERY LAST FILE and compute a SHA1 (checksum) and also compare the file length to the previous files. I was starting from scratch, so I didnt have an existing install. Backblaze will not retransmit those files, they will "deduplicate" against the "i:" files already transmitted to the datacenter. In your case, what will happen is Backblaze will wake up (after the inherit) and think that you just added a ton of files to "j:". Backblaze needs time to "sort it's brain out". Don't panic when it suddenly says it will re-upload the whole drive, it won't. The most important thing after successfully doing an "Inherit Backup State" is to not panic and turn off all power savings modes on your computer and let your computer run for like 6 hours in "Continuously" backup schedule.
This allows users of the Backblaze cloud storage service to have their files backed up automatically, without the need to specifically select them for backup. The drive letter has changed on the new machine from i: to j: Will the inherited state still work? In March 2018, Backblaze announced a new feature called inherit backup state. Disclaimer: I wrote Inherit Backup State and work at Backblaze.
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