I have only required technical support once during this time, in installing the new version of the Desktop app onto our Windows laptop (everything went smoothly with no need to contact support for installing the Desktop version on my Mac). I have now been with CrashPlan for Business for about 3 months and I find that everything is running very smoothly. I don’t trust myself enough to have a backup system reliant on me doing something.ĬrashPlan users out there, what did you end up doing? If you have any thoughts or ideas, share them in the comments or on Twitter. There were other options I considered like Arq, a NAS at another location, or even having an external drive in a safe deposit box, but I wanted something easy and automated. If I accidentally delete something and don’t notice it until 31 days later, I should be able to fish it out of my Time Machine backup.īackblaze is what I ended up going with, and my upload is about 50% done as I type this. I decided that since I have my local backup as well, I can live with a 30 day deleted file limitation. Then again, perhaps storing deleted files forever is one of the things that made CrashPlan for Home unsustainable. I can’t think of a time I needed to restore an older deleted file from CrashPlan, but I liked knowing that I could. Backblaze only keeps deleted files for 30 days. The one thing that I don’t like about Backblaze is their file retention policy. It also doesn’t use a Java client, which is great. So much for that concern.Įveryone I know who uses Backblaze loves it, and price-wise it is the same as what I was paying for CrashPlan for unlimited storage. I never did pull the trigger, mainly because I didn’t relish the thought of re-uploading all my data. This is a funny one because I wrote a blog post back in 2014 about my possibly-impending switch to Backblaze. I have also heard that their upload speeds are very slow and their default storage allowance is too low for my needs. I want to be able to roll back a file if I need to. One thing I do not like about Carbonite is that on Mac there is no file versioning, which (somewhat) defeats the purpose of backup for me. They have worked out a deal with Carbonite where CrashPlan users get 50% off an online backup plan. This is alternative #2 that CrashPlan offers. The silver lining of the CrashPlanpocalypse is I can finally get away from that. I know this is a purely emotional response, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.Īlso, one thing I do not like about CrashPlan is their Java client. I was tempted to take them up on the 75% off for the first year option to give myself some more time.Īt the end of the day though, I don’t want to keep giving money to a company that has annoyed me so much. The price would (eventually) be double than what I was paying for CrashPlan’s Home plan, but I could live with that. I also like their data retention policies. This would be the easiest option since I already have and know CrashPlan and my data is already there. There are many, many offsite backup strategies to use, but I still wanted to use online backup (glutton for punishment, I suppose).įor me, there were three services that I thought about. What CrashPlan Alternatives Did I Consider? I have found online backup the easiest and most convenient way to accomplish this, and this is what CrashPlan did for me. This is especially important living where I do (Vancouver) which is due for a “big one” earthquake someday. If I have a fire or a flood at home, chances are whatever happens to my computer will also happen to my local backups.
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