CrashPlan for Home Service Discontinued - Where to Now for Backups?

L12Sydney34 on 23/08/2017 - 08:54

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/

Effective August 22, 2017, Code42 will no longer offer new – or renew – CrashPlan for Home subscriptions, and we will begin to sunset the product over several months.
CrashPlan for Home will no longer be available for use starting October 23, 2018.

At Code42, protecting your data is important to us. As we shift our business strategy to focus exclusively on enterprise and small business segments, you have two great options to continue getting the best backup solution.

Please read on to determine how this change will impact your CrashPlan for Home subscription and what steps you should take to ensure a smooth transition to a new backup solution.

Options suggested by Crashplan:-
1) Crashplan for Small Business (USD $10 per month per device with 75% off for first 12 months)
2) Carbonite (USD $60 per year, 50% off for 1st year)

Any other cloud backup feedback?

Computing

Comments

  • bdl on 23/08/2017 - 09:17
    +2

    Backblaze

    • o53djz7qTPY4der on 23/08/2017 - 09:25

      Yep. B2 Storage is even cheaper if you need no/infrequent access.

      • BigLeviathan on 24/08/2017 - 19:16

        With backblaze, can you retain the backup even if you "decommissioned" the PC? I have CrashPlan Family Unlimited 1YR and I can spawn as many computers for my family (even for my dad), even my old servers

        Yes I admit that I'm a data hoarder

        • o53djz7qTPY4der on 25/08/2017 - 05:52

          I believe it's 5$ per PC.

          With B2 you can have as many buckets as you like, you're charged 0.005c per GB for storage. And 0.02c for retrieval.

          I have my photos (70gb) on B2 encrypted with rclone, costs about 0.50c per month with an average of 1-2 GB updated each month.

        • Grunef on 28/08/2017 - 16:27

          @Xiongmao:

          0.005c or $0.005?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU

    • samfisher5986 on 25/08/2017 - 13:19

      Keep in mind if you lose an 8TB drive for example under Backblaze, they only give you 30 days to recover it from their servers which is not that much considering you won't get maximum speeds from their US servers.

      • bdl on 25/08/2017 - 16:44

        You can get them to send you a physical disk with your data too

        • BigLeviathan on 26/08/2017 - 04:47

          are they delivering the HDD to AUS too? how about the shipping fee returning those hdds back to US who will pay for it?

        • bdl on 26/08/2017 - 09:30

          @televisi: Yes to AU too. You can ship it back or keep the drive. See: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/usb-hard-drive-restore/. Depends how much your data is worth to you, if you're a tightarse and don't want to pay for a restore then there's no helping you.

  • JimmyF on 23/08/2017 - 10:20
    +1

    Yeah this is a crap announcement. I use this product heavily for the family, all coming back to my place in the 'friend to friend' mode.

    While I'm not a paying customer as such, its still a pain in the arse!

    • iDroid on 23/08/2017 - 13:00
      +1

      I'm feeling that pain too :(

      • BigLeviathan on 24/08/2017 - 19:17

        The arse bit? Hehe

        • iDroid on 25/08/2017 - 13:24

          Shhhh! That's our secret!

  • Martlark on 23/08/2017 - 11:45

    That's very annoying! The family plan was an excellent and economical deal.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/08/2017 - 15:29

    pCloud - 1 off 2TB storage plan for USD$250.

    But i use crash plan and their business accounts are $10 per month per device - equitable with the family plan if you only back up 1 PC.

  • BigLeviathan on 28/08/2017 - 16:50

    Okay seems backblaze is way to go…time to do more research on how to migrate the data across from cp without waiting for 3 months to upload…

    Prolls using work fast network on spare machine, and continue the backup using inherit method at home

  • buthidae on 31/08/2017 - 23:11

    We use the enterprise version of Crashplan at my work (private K12 .edu.au), and had a couple of year trial codes for Crashplan Home. I let it expire - it was good, but not great. I've heard good things about Backblaze for a long time, and set it up a couple of weeks ago. Pretty happy with it, just subscribed for two computers and I'll be adding at least one more.

    Are we OK to put referral links here? Backblaze offer an extended trial for new users (14 days becomes a month) and after the referee subscribes the referer gets a free month.

    • BigLeviathan on 31/08/2017 - 23:27

      So you already on CP business plan and decided to move to BackBlaze too? why? I thought the non-home CP version is not affected by the change?
      Also, does your work place use Linux or just Windows and Mac?

      Yes please provide your referral link, so I can give Backblaze a try it longer :)
      Note: if referral cannot be used here, please PM your referral link across to me

      • buthidae on 31/08/2017 - 23:36

        Sorry, I probably could have been more clear! I had a code for a year of Crashplan Home to use on my personal machine. At work we still have the enterprise stuff going, and hopefully with their change in focus it will get even better! :)

        My Backblaze code is https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01bwgo

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