Just to be clear, there are 3 different things:
* Backblaze Online Backup - $5/month unlimited backup for Mac/Win; automatically does client-side-encryption
* Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - $0.005/GB/mo for object storage (lower cost than Glacier, but we don't yet offer a client, though others are building)
* Backblaze Storage Pod - the hardware that underlies both of these, which we also open source for anyone to use
I have been looking into Backblaze every time it was mentioned on a podcast, and as far as I can tell you still cannot download your backup and then decrypt it on your own machine:
Such a pity. I'm still stuck with CrashPlan (yuck!) for this one reason. I've been evaluating Arq, but I'm not yet confident enough to move all my/relatives' machines over.
looks like crashplan does support client-side encryption? is that true? does it require a local mirror disk/folder like dropbox does?
I'm really more interested in a long-term backup storage instead of a folder-sync storage, cold storage is fine but glacier seems a little hard to use and retrieval is expensive.
Gleb from Backblaze