Next, another pop-up window will ask your permission to install Backblaze to your device.Once you have clicked “Start Backing Up,” a pop up window will appear and you can download Backblaze to your device. You will be asked to create an account using your email address and choosing a password.Click here to go to Backblaze and begin your free 15-day trial by clicking on “Try Free Trial.”.Here’s how to download Backblaze to your device in four easy steps. Have you wondered, like Kathy did, if it would be complicated to set up Backblaze? Has it held you back from taking the leap to protect your files? I want you and our other readers and listeners to feel 100% confident in downloading this awesome back-up service. I trust your judgement, so thank you for your advice.” I have had a few external hard drives with backup programs before and they were very difficult and I didn’t want to go through that again. But, I decided that today would be the day, that I would back up my computer…I subscribed to Backblaze. However, it did not show the download steps, so I could not tell how difficult it would be and if it would ask me really hard questions that I would not know how to answer during backup, so I didn’t subscribe. I remember you mentioning Backblaze in previous e-mails, and I looked up their website and read the information I could find. “I received your e-mail yesterday with all the helpful information. Genealogy Gems Premium website member Kathy felt a little intimidated about downloading BackBlaze for the first time: That means if my computer is lost, stolen, destroyed, or hit with deadly viruses, I’ll always have copies of my files and that even includes my large video files! Backblaze runs 24/7 through my internet connection and is constantly saving changes I make to every file. So, after reviewing other cloud backup service options, I chose Backblaze. I was pretty startled when I discovered that the cloud backup service I used to use wasn’t backing up my video files! That was a deal-breaker for me. Here’s how to download Backblaze in four easy steps. Protecting genealogy data, family photos, and other files is essential! Well, I have other local backup setups, so it doesn't really matter, if all that stuff isn't backed up to the Backblaze pods… well, except when there's a catastrophic event like a fire… and isn't that what Backblaze is supposed to be for? Getting *all* your important stuff back, when disaster strikes? Not the system, of course, but all the rest? Hmmm… Still, it's a great addition to cloning and Time Machine.Don’t be intimidated by signing up for Backblaze, the cloud-based computer backup service I recommend. (!) And why not your /Applications folder? As far as I can see, they don't give us a reason. And /Library/Application\ Support/ does contain a lot of important things for the user, not only his home folder. But what about additions that the user has made to the system? Third-party extensions, homebrewed and other binaries in /usr/local/? It would be easy for the Backblaze servers to diff a client's system setup against the standard Apple OS X install and only backup the additional files
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