As Much as 50 Billion Files Restored by Backblaze

This article was written by Yev Pusin, director, marketing, cloud storage and backup, Backblaze, Inc., and written on February 27, 2020.

50 Billion Files Restores and Counting

50,000,000,000 – that’s a large number. It also happens to be the milestone that we crossed (on February 5, 2020 at 14:47 UTC) for files restored from our Computer Backup servicehttps://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html.

Back in 2016, Backblaze hit 20 billion files restored for our customers. It took us almost 9 years to get to that number, and only another 4 years to more than double it (and that’s not including all the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage files that get accessed and downloaded every day).

50 billion is a giant number, but it’s not just a number to us. It’s baby pictures, first step videos, PhD theses, long lost tax forms from years past, Powerpoint presentations, digitized family albums, art projects, documents and writing, manuscripts, book outlines, and all manner of memories. We love that we’ve built a sustainable business around restoring people’s files which they may have thought were lost forever.

The last time we wrote about a restore milestone we went in and took a look at a typical month in the life of our restore system.

Lets revisit that and take a look at the stats for January 2020,
with a few new ones thrown in:

January 2020 stats:
• 28,841 total restores
• 1,119,500,858 (1.1 billion) total files restored
• 2.17PB of data restored
• 3TB per hour – equivalent to a good sized external HDD
• 48GB/mn – about one 4K UHD Blu-Ray movie
• 810MB/s – just over one CD’s worth of data

Restores By OS:
• 49.08% were Mac
• 50.92% were Windows

Of all January 2020 restores:
• 97.82% were Zip
• 1.63% were USB HD
• 0.54% were USB flash drive

Average amount of files per restore:
• 29,927 files – Zip
• 518,756.23 – USB HD
• 232,711.93 files – USB flash drive

Average size of a restore:
• 42.16GB – Zip
• 2,081.42GB – USB HD
• 131.95GB – USB flash drive

Total data restored:
• Bytes: 2,169,762,976,872,020
• KB: 2,169,762,976,872.02
• MB: 2,169,762,976.87
• GB: 2,169,762.98
• TB: 2,169.76
• PB: 2.17

Based on ZIP restores:

We started Backblaze with a goal of preventing data loss, and we’re now recovering over 2PB of data per month, which is a stat that we are proud of. To put that into perspective, it took us 2 and a half years to reach 2PB of customer data under management. Now we’re helping our customers restore that amount of data on a monthly basis.

We want to thank our Backblaze customers, and remind folks of how easy it is to restore data with us. You can download it for free via the web, recover your files via a USB HDD or flash key, and use our Mobile apps to access data on iOS and Android.

To learn more, visit our restore webpage.

If you want to test a restore, try this easy web guide:

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