Snapshots that are in progress during this maintenance period will be stopped and then will be restarted once the servers are back up. Users should also be aware that Backblaze has a regularly scheduled maintenance period each Thursday at 2pm PT during which servers are offline for a brief maintenance. This performance varies with snapshots with many small files (> 100,000) or large snapshots with very few files taking longer.Īt 1min/GB, very large snapshots can take several days to run. īased on our statistics, users can expect snapshots to take approximately 1 minute/GB. Users will only be charged for the snapshot’s storage once it is uploaded to their snapshot bucket.

When creating a snapshot using the Backblaze UI, users will not be charged for any B2 transactions involved in creating the snapshot, nor any processing time on our servers. The maximum size for a single snapshot is 10TB. If users wish to disable B2 or delete their accounts, all the snapshots that have been created must be removed from the snapshot bucket first.

However, snapshots can be downloaded via the command-line tool or third-party tools like Cyberduck or Transmit from the snapshot bucket. This bucket cannot be deleted or modified by users. The b2 proprietary snapshot bucket has the prefix “b2-snapshot-”. When a snapshot is created, a B2 proprietary bucket is created to store the users’ snapshots in. The creation of snapshots is currently only available through the Backblaze website from the Browse Files page and/or the Buckets page.Ī snapshot is a convenient way to download many files at once at a single point in time.

Snapshots are zip files created from downloading files stored in a B2 bucket.

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