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No additional space on Business Advanced
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
@Dominus
Then you are caught in the cross-fire and should never believe the word "unlimited storage". Google Workspace is now enforcing limits and Dropbox will too. The only re-course is to migrate to locally storing and use Blackbaze as a backup.
Also, why are you storing security footage online? It's best kept OFFLINE is it not? You are violating AUP too as you are backing up too.
The "cloud" is someone else's computer..
I should be more clear, these accounts are storing 50,100,200,300+ terabytes of data. Most users will not be storing this insane amount of data. If you only check accounts doing this on or after March 2023; you can get almost all the big offenders.
Is Blackbase not the same as GDrive and DBox?
Unfortunately not.
Restoring data from backblaze (and crashplan) is slow and expensive.
There was times when one could order from them harddisks with the files but they stopped this.
Dropbox, box, google-drive and those storage services are basically 'hot storage' with no cost of downloading stuff.
Governmental agencies for example use services like backblaze due to certain requirements but private companies are free to choose.
But this whole discussion is nonsense.
Dropbox is a international, giant stock company. They have analysts and accountants that came up with the idea to offer _Unlimited Space_ to people. They thought they could make money that way. Or do you really think they made a mistake and did not foresee this?
This is all bollocks.
If you offer All you can eat in your hotel and then guests arrive that eat more than you have expected you cannot simply throw them out. This is your fault.
- Yeah they got a big influx of data. They got a lot of news clients/$$ too. I don't doubt they will find their balance again soon.
The huge data influx is from people migrating their Plex collections (hundreds upon hundreds of Terabytes of data) off Google Workspace to Dropbox.
Google acted on enforcing storage limits in March of this year and everyone is rushing to get off. I've been watching the fallout.
Tomato2515 are you a BackBlaze employee .... 😉
No just what popped into my head. Can't remember Amazon's; Amazon S3? You get the point.
