bread and circuses --> food and video. these are the only consumer tech industries that will survive.
everything else will eventually pivot to business/government.
CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
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Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
After we are done talking about Backblaze as a snappy app (yes, it has always been many times faster than CrashPlan), cleaner and simpler interface (no doubt here), a lot faster speed (this has been my experience and seems to be the case with a lot of people), it really isn't much good as a backup service choice. I have mentioned before, I think here on HN too, the data retention policy is just too bad and their reas…
Brian from Backblaze here. > I guess it's tough luck if you are in a different country, or different continent altogether. Backblaze sends USB hard drive restores to other continents every day! Today we have one restore shipping to Finland and one to Great Britain. And to be clear, we absorb 100% of the cost: it is $189 USD deposit and we absolutely absorb 100% of the shipping cost whether it is Texas or Finland. Als…
Linux support please...
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze, and I'm one of the main people who writes the client. I would encourage you to try the Backblaze client again. We JUST released the 5.0 client (last week) and we continue to make little fixes that improve the customer experience. The client team's MAIN GOAL has always been that the client run in "Continuously" mode and NOT annoy the customer. For example, even up until a year ago we d…
It's pretty clear in the comments here that all efforts other than solving the 30 day file retention limit are going to be a waste of time until you address this. It simply reduces the utility of the product to the point that you need yet another product that will almost inherently render yor product unnecessary. Until you address this, I can't reason investing time, processor performance, or the tiny monthly payment…
> all efforts other than solving the 30 day file retention limit
Trust me, that message has come through loud and clear! :-) We are going to do some analysis to see if we can afford it, but we'll need at least a week or two to figure that out.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
For full folder backups, duplicity [1] has been great for me, does incremental backups, and has quite a few backends. You control rotation policies, full-snapshot frequency, etc, and bring your own storage (works with s3, rsync, etc.). Full-folder recovery is also pretty easy in my experience. The downside is that it's all on you to configure providers, pay for storage, and I'm not aware of any indexing or ability to…
The issue with these for me is that with the common cloud storage providers, even just backing up my Documents folder raises it above the price of BackBlaze or a similar offering.
if you're willing to pay 50€/year, you could get a hubic[1] subscription for a 10TB cloud storage.
i haven't tested it myself though, just heard about it.
Its supposidly possible to share this account with friends, because duplicity backups are GPG encrypted.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#235I recently had evaluated my entire backup plan and CrashPlan was evaluated as a possible change. It was one of two finalists I was debating between. Boy am I glad I didn't go with them. I understand that they will not just cancel the existing users and are only preventing new customers from signing up. But let's be real. We know what this means. It means they will not be giving the individual consumers in any sort of…
I went though the "adoption" procedure in July with no issues. I was migrating from an aging Windows system to a Linux system and had no issues. I was expecting to have problems and to re-upload my ~500GB of data, but surprisingly it figured out where everything was. That even included moving the data around so I could reformat the NTFS drive to ext4. My only complaint over the years I've been using CrashPlan has been that the Java client is a bit memory hungry.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#236Not sure I need a backup solution anymore to be honest. All my stuff is on something cloud-y already anyway. (Cloud =/= backup I know).
Realistically my data loss risk profile is pretty low. So not sure I need to spend coin on backup...
Much more scared of say Lastpass dropping dead.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure that whatever solution the r/datahoarder people go for is exactly the one I DON'T want to choose. Those are the exact people who make attractive pricing unsustainable.
Maybe you don't like the way they abuse their accounts, but it doesn't mean their tools are bad.
It does mean the tools are more likely to be driven out of business, though.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
I backup quite a bit and after deduplication with tarsnap it's not nearly as much.
I hear that a lot about tarsnap, do you all mainly back up VMs or log files? The majority of my most important backup data is my photos. I don't see how tarsnap could duplicate (or even further compress) that.
I evaluated tarsnap for my photos a while back, and this was the conclusion I came to. I would have been paying for basically the entire size of my photo library, which is quite large.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
For full folder backups, duplicity [1] has been great for me, does incremental backups, and has quite a few backends. You control rotation policies, full-snapshot frequency, etc, and bring your own storage (works with s3, rsync, etc.). Full-folder recovery is also pretty easy in my experience. The downside is that it's all on you to configure providers, pay for storage, and I'm not aware of any indexing or ability to…
The issue with these for me is that with the common cloud storage providers, even just backing up my Documents folder raises it above the price of BackBlaze or a similar offering.
Duplicity can backup to Backblaze's B2 service, which is an S3-alike where you only pay for storage and download, not upload. 40$ to restore backup in the case of a failed disk, and a few bucks a month (literally) for storage.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#240I actually have 3 Crashplan for Families under my hands. My mom and dads iMacs is one of them. This is literally easy money for Crashplan. But the price would double to move them to the new Small Business plan. What I liked about Crashplan, besides the unlimited space was that if files would get deleted, and you would find out about it 3 months later, you could recover them. With Backblaze, which is mentioned here, y…
While I like Backblaze's storage offering, they really have an extremely inferior management platform for their system. Management of devices is manual and reports are sent manually in Excel format. Cancellations and device reallocation are also done manually and over email.