You lose a bit of control. With S3 you can preprocess (transform, index, filter, downcode, etc) before storing. You can index metadata in place (names, sizes, metadata) for low-cost searching.
As for testing recovery, you can validate file counts, sizes + checksums without performing recovery.
A few shell scripts give you the power of advanced enterprise backup, whereas backblaze only supports GUI restores.
As for testing recovery, you can validate file counts, sizes + checksums without performing recovery.
A few shell scripts give you the power of advanced enterprise backup, whereas backblaze only supports GUI restores.