Just learnt that CrashPlan are dumping their home user services. What do others recommend?
CrashPlan Dumps Home Users
skywalka on 11/10/2017 - 22:09
Last edited 11/10/2017 - 22:16 by 1 other user
Last edited 11/10/2017 - 22:16 by 1 other user
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iDrive, 2TB backup + 2TB for sync, versioning (which isn't counted towards your quota), backup as many devices as you like, access data from any device, can do an initial backup seed with a HDD, recovery by having a HDD sent, etc.
You select what to include in your backup, (unlike Backblaze's retarded method - I used them for a year), encrypted, delta backup (only changed parts of files are transferred). Be good if they bring in dedupe at some point.Have used them for the last 3 years.
Using CrashPlan Business.
I've been using Backblaze for a few months, been very happy with it. There was a thread on here not long ago asking a similar question. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/325416
I did use Crashplan Home previously, it was good (especially for machine to machine backups), but Backblaze seems very seamless and simple. My employer uses Crashplan Pro (or whatever they're calling it this week) and it's mostly great.
PLUG: Backblaze will give you a two week free trial on signup, but with a referral code you get a month, and I also get a free month. Assuming it's OK to post here, my code is: https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01bwgo
Not sure how you can stand using Backblaze for two main reasons.
The US server connections were quite slow to me considering I have a 40mbit connection.
They will delete your data in 30 days if your hard drive dies or you have some other kind of failure.
30 days is not enough to restore much data unless they give you great download speeds, which they don't.
30 days now?
It used to be your computer had to connect at least once every 6 months otherwise they deleted your data … considering you're paying for this service, that is just a crap policy.
The thing that really annoyed me about BackBlaze was their software that worked the opposite way to most backup options, you had to deselect everything you didn't want backed up and you couldn't remove the boot drive from the backup which meant I was wasting bandwidth uploading GBs of the easiest thing to restore, (I just reinstall the OS).
Probably a great idea on your typical one drive system but with 6TB spread across four drives and only wanting to backup 400GB it was a PITA.
Plus you're limited to a single machine which meant for anything on one of my other machines I had to sync it to my main computer, thereby wasting drive space.
Gave up on BackBlaze after 8 months despite having a 12 month account.
The policy has never changed.
I believe you can manually put it into vacation mode and get extra time, but during this time you can't backup anything else, so its essentially useless.
I switched to Amazon Cloud Drive and Gsuite.
Crashplan business is a bad idea in my opinion.
They only allowed crashplan home users with less then 5TB to transfer their data to business, what does that tell you?
The memory usage of crashplan is crazy, it can easily use 10-15GB of ram depending on the size of your backup.
You can go crashplan business or backblaze (5 p/m). Only downside about backblaze is it must see the data every 30 days else it will remove the data from its servers.