If you use the Backblaze online-backup system on a Mac and you haven\u2019t upgraded to version 8.5, I recommend doing so; the user experience is far better than in older versions.<\/p>\r\n
I was using a version that was a System Preferences panel, which has always been annoying to use; for example, after I clicked the \u201cBackup Now\u201d button, there would be no visible response at all for sometimes up to a few minutes before it told me that it was scanning my hard drive.<\/p>\r\n
After I updated macOS to Ventura 13.x, the Backblaze experience got a little worse, because it was no longer easy to find Backblaze in the new Settings app.<\/p>\r\n
So I decided to go look on the Backblaze site to see if there was a new version for Ventura. There wasn\u2019t, but the latest version was newer than the version I had, so I installed the latest version.<\/p>\r\n
And the latest version is much<\/em> better. It\u2019s a standalone app instead of a Settings panel. The installer ran so fast that I didn\u2019t think it had done anything. It seamlessly got rid of the old version and set up the new one. When I click \u201cBackup Now\u201d in the new version, it immediately reacts, and the scanning-your-hard-drives dialog now has a progress bar.<\/p>\r\n Also, there are now settings that appear to let you manually reduce the system resources that the app uses. In the past, I haven\u2019t let Backblaze run automatically because it slowed my computer to a crawl while it was running; I\u2019m hoping that the new setting will let me run it more often while still using my computer.<\/p>\r\n All very pleasing.<\/p>\r\n (In theory, Backblaze is supposed to let you know when there\u2019s a new version available; in practice, I didn\u2019t receive any sort of notification about this. It\u2019s possible that the standalone-app version has been available for a long time and I just didn\u2019t know about it.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19600,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions\/19600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}