Case Study: Fellowship Church achieves accessible, affordable, time-saving cloud archiving with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Fellowship Church - Customer Case Study

Fellowship Church, one of the largest and most progressive churches in the U.S., was struggling with an aging LTO-5 tape archive workflow that required manually cataloging and babysitting 10–25 TB of new video, audio, and graphics each weekend and had grown to over 1 PB on tape. Seeking better accessibility and affordability, the church evaluated cloud options and chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to replace their tape archive.

Fellowship Church implemented a solution using GoodSync to detect new and changed files on their SAN and automatically archive them to Backblaze B2, allowing staff to thin the SAN and store archives off-site with immediate access. The Backblaze B2 deployment eliminated the weekly tape batching and error-prone tape maintenance, freed staff from hours of manual work each week, and provided an affordable, accessible archive for their growing media library.

Fellowship Church

Dave Clark

Director of Media and Technology