macup vs Backblaze
Backblaze Personal is the cheapest way to get true unlimited cloud backup for one Mac — fixed price, unobtrusive client, millions of users. What you give up is first-class multi-drive support, multi-Mac aggregation, in-app versioned restore, and key control. For one Mac cloud-only, Backblaze is hard to beat. For creators and professionals with many drives and Macs, macup fits better.
Where Backblaze wins
- One Mac, cloud-only, and you want the lowest possible fixed price.
- Your dataset is enormous and unlimited storage is the killer feature.
- You're happy restoring through a web console or mail-order drive.
- You don't need admin tooling across a fleet.
Where macup wins
- You want versioned, on-device restore without paying per-GB egress or waiting for a mail drive.
- You work across multiple external drives and want each treated as a first-class source.
- You have more than one Mac and want one dashboard covering all of them.
- You're a business or MSP and need a multi-tenant admin console.
- You want end-to-end encryption with a key the vendor cannot decrypt, verifiable via passphrase and a recovery code.
macup and Backblaze, point by point.
Checked against publicly documented features as of the last review date. If we got something wrong, email us.
| Feature | macup | Backblaze |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end encrypted | ✓ | Partial · Optional personal encryption key; by default Backblaze holds the key for easier recovery. |
| Ransomware-resistant | ✓ | Partial · Version history retained for one year on current plans; not Object-Lock style write-once. |
| Deduplication | ✓ | Partial · Block-level deltas on upload; no cross-machine dedup. |
| Continuous (file-system events) | ✓ | ✓ |
| External drive support | ✓ | Partial · Supported, but a drive must be attached at least every 30 days or its data is purged from backup. |
| Cloud destination included | ✓ | Unlimited |
| BYOS (S3-compatible) | ✓ | — |
| Granular restore UX | ✓ | Partial · Restore via web console (ZIP) or paid mail-order drive; no native in-app browse. |
| Multi-device / multi-Mac | ✓ | Partial · Each Mac is a separate license and a separate silo. |
| Team / admin dashboard | ✓ | Partial · Business plans add Groups; Personal does not. |
| MSP multi-tenant console | ✓ | — |
| macOS-native design | ✓ | Partial · Functional Mac client; not a menubar-first native experience. |
| Recovery passphrase + code | ✓ | Partial · Optional personal encryption key acts as passphrase; no verifiable one-time recovery code. |
| Supports multiple destinations | ✓ | — |
The migration, one step at a time.
Run both tools in parallel until you trust macup. Here's the sensible sequence.
Check whether you need a historical restore first
If there's a file only Backblaze has right now, trigger a restore from backblaze.com before you cancel anything. For small restores, ZIP works fine. For large datasets, order a restore drive — it ships in a few days and arrives before you need it.
Install macup and pick your destination
Download macup and sign in. Choose macup Cloud for managed end-to-end encrypted storage, or BYOS if you want to point at your own S3-compatible bucket or a local drive. For most Backblaze switchers, macup Cloud is the direct replacement.
Recreate your sources, including external drives
Add every source folder and every external drive you want covered. macup treats each external drive as a first-class source with its own retention policy — you don't have the 30-day-attached rule to worry about.
Run macup and Backblaze in parallel during your macup trial
Don't cancel Backblaze yet. Let macup complete its first full upload, which takes as long as your upstream allows. Verify a few restores from macup before you touch Backblaze.
Cancel Backblaze after 30 days of confidence
Once macup has been running cleanly for a month and you've tested restoring from it, you can cancel Backblaze. Most users prorate the remaining subscription.
Record your macup recovery material
macup generates a recovery passphrase and a one-time recovery code. Store both somewhere you'll find them in a year — password manager plus a printed copy. The recovery code is what lets us verify your identity without ever seeing your data.
See macup and Backblaze side by side — on your own data.
14-day trial. No card. Decide at the end.