Backblaze

Yes. You install the client and it backs up over the internet to Backblaze's US or EU regions; restores come as a download or, for large recoveries, a shipped drive. There is no Australian data region, and the first full backup takes a while on typical Australian upload speeds — but after that it runs incrementally in the background and is essentially painless.

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One job, done exceptionally well: automatically backing up your entire computer — every file, unlimited data — for a flat yearly price. It is insurance against a dead laptop, ransomware or theft, running quietly in the background so you never have to think about it. What it is not is a Dropbox-style sync-and-share service: there are no shared folders or collaboration tools. If you want a safety net for one machine rather than a workspace across many, that focus is exactly the point.

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It is US$99/yr for unlimited backup of one computer — no per-gigabyte metering, however large your libraries grow. For anyone sitting on big photo or video collections, that per-gigabyte cost is effectively unbeatable in this comparison, since most rivals cap storage or charge by capacity. The trade-off is that it covers a single machine per licence and stores data in the US or EU rather than Australia.

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Yes. Backblaze is a Nasdaq-listed US company (founded 2007) known for radical transparency — it publicly publishes its hard-drive failure statistics and even its storage-pod hardware designs. Backups use AES encryption, and an optional private encryption key means only you can unlock them, at the cost of no password recovery if you lose that key.

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It is backup-only — no file sync, no sharing links, no collaboration. Each licence covers a single computer, so a multi-device household pays per machine. Version history is limited unless you extend it, and data sits in US or EU regions, never Australia. And from Australia specifically, that first full backup is a long upload on typical connection speeds. Judge it for what it is, though, and as pure set-and-forget backup it is still the simplest deal anywhere.

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They do different jobs. Google Drive syncs and shares selected files (15 GB free) but does not automatically protect everything on your machine. Backblaze backs up your whole computer, unlimited, for a flat fee — with no sharing or collaboration. Many people sensibly run both: Google Drive for the active files they share and edit, Backblaze as the invisible safety net catching everything else. So it is less ‘which is better’ than ‘which problem are you solving’.

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