Backblaze vs Rewind

Backblaze is a publicly traded storage company from San Mateo, California, founded in 2007, that runs its own data centers and sells two products. Computer Backup continuously backs up an entire Mac or Windows PC, including attached external drives, for a flat monthly price with no data cap. B2 Cloud Storage is S3-compatible object storage priced per terabyte, positioned as a much cheaper alternative to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage.

Computer Backup offers version history, restores through the web and the app, and the option to have data shipped on a USB drive. B2 includes free egress up to three times the data stored each month, free transfer through partners such as Cloudflare, object lock for immutable, ransomware-resistant backups, and integrations with tools like Veeam, Synology, QNAP, rclone and media asset managers. The first 10 GB of B2 storage is free, and billing beyond that is simple and predictable.

Backblaze suits individuals and creatives who want set-and-forget workstation backup, and developers or IT teams storing backups, media archives and app uploads cheaply. It is not a sync or collaboration tool like Dropbox, it offers far fewer regions and services than AWS, and very large Computer Backup restores can be slow. Against Wasabi it competes on egress terms and ecosystem, and against IDrive on simplicity. The company is also known for publishing quarterly hard drive reliability statistics from its own fleet.

Rewind is a backup and recovery service for SaaS data, built by a company based in Ottawa, Canada. It protects data that cloud platforms do not back up on your behalf, including Shopify store content, GitHub repositories and metadata, Jira and Confluence, QuickBooks Online and Trello. Under the shared responsibility model, SaaS vendors keep their infrastructure running, but accidental deletions, faulty app installs, bad imports and malicious changes remain the customer's problem.

Rewind runs automated backups, typically daily, and keeps a versioned history of items. Users can restore a single product, theme, issue, page or transaction, or roll back a whole account to an earlier point. For GitHub it captures repositories along with metadata such as issues and pull requests, a capability it expanded by acquiring BackHub, and for Atlassian products it is available through the Atlassian Marketplace. Pricing is per user per month for the platform you back up, with a Standard plan, an Advanced plan for compliance needs and custom Enterprise contracts.

Rewind fits merchants, engineering teams and finance departments for whom losing data in Shopify, GitHub, Jira or QuickBooks would be costly, and it supports retention requirements for compliance. Costs add up when several apps are protected, coverage is limited to supported platforms, and restores of complex, interconnected data can be partial. GitProtect is an alternative for code repositories, Spanning and Backupify cover Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, and Own, now part of Salesforce, specializes in Salesforce data.