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Restoring Data

Documents and data on how to restore data.

How to Create a Restore from Your Backblaze Backup
Creating a Restore:  To start, you will need to sign in to the Backblaze...
Christopher Christopher
How to use the restore app
Version 9.0 of the Backblaze backup application has a built-in restore a...
Lin Lin
Apple Address Book Restore Guide
To restore your Apple Address Book on Catalina and newer operating syste...
Lin Lin
How to Check the Status of your Restore Drive
(Please see our articles on How to Create a Restore and How to Order a R...
Lin Lin
Downloading a Restore
For information on how to create a Restore please see here, and for all ...
Lin Lin
How do I find the Unlock Code/Encryption Key for my Snapshot drive?
To locate the Unlock Code/Encryption Key for your Snapshot Drive, follow...
Lin Lin
How to move files from your Restore to your Local Hard Drive.
Backblaze Restores are simply containers for your requested files. Becau...
Lin Lin
I have Extended Version History, how can I find my files?
If a file or drive in your backup has not backed up in more than 30 days...
Lin Lin
How to Order a Restore Drive
To order a Restore Hard Drive or Flash Drive with data from your Backbla...
Lin Lin
How do I delete files from my Restore Drive?
On Windows Machines, you only need to right-click on the drive itself, t...
Lin Lin
Unzip a zip file in Windows
How zip files work When you Restore data from Backblaze, your files are ...
Myron Myron
MacOS error: "The folder ... can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents."
Error reading files from Restore When viewing the contents of a USB R...
Myron Myron
Quickbooks Restore Guide
1. Sign in to your backblaze.com account and navigate to the "View/Resto...
Lin Lin
How to Use BetterZip (Mac)
In some cases, the default Mac unzip utility may fail while unzipping yo...
Zack Zack
Apple Books Restore Guide
To restore your Apple Books Library on Catalina and newer operating syst...
Lin Lin
Apple TV and Apple Movies restore guide
To restore your Apple TV and Apple Movies Library on Catalina and newer ...
Lin Lin
Apple Podcasts Restore Guide
On Catalina, and newer Mac operating systems, iTunes is broken in multip...
Lin Lin
Apple Music Restore Guide
To restore your Apple Music Library on Catalina and newer operating syst...
Lin Lin
Ordering a Mac restore drive that will be opened and used on a Windows computer
When ordering a restore drive, it will be formatted as HFS+ when restori...
Matt Matt
Restoring Firefox Bookmarks with Backblaze
On both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, Firefox stores bookmarks locally. So...
Lin Lin
How to Unzip A Restore File With 7-Zip
Download 7-zip from https://www.7-zip.org/ Once the installer has been d...
Brad Brad
Keep Your Computer Backup Restore Longer with B2
Keep Your Restore Longer Backblaze keeps .zip restores for 7 days. You c...
Yev Yev
Saving Files to B2 from Computer Backup
You can now send files from your Backblaze Personal Backup and Business ...
Christopher Christopher
Direct Download Restores
From the View/Restore Files page, individual files less than 6 GB can be...
Christopher Christopher
Preview Files
Image files within a Backblaze backup can be previewed from the View/Res...
Christopher Christopher
Sharing a File
Individual files within a Backblaze backup can be directly shared from t...
Christopher Christopher
How to disable encryption on Backblaze USB restore hard drives
Please note: all restore drives are formatted to the operating system of...
Lin Lin
How to unlock an encrypted USB restore
Please note: all restore drives are formatted to the operating system of...
adam adam
Restore Return Refund program - How to return a USB restore drive for refund
The Restore Return Refund program is for Personal Backup and Business Ba...
adam adam
How to use The Unarchiver (Mac)
In some cases, the default Mac utility may fail when unzipping your rest...
Zack Zack