The only reason I used CrashPlan is that, on my home network, anything I'd want to back up is on my NAS. Are there alternative "consumer" solutions that support that?
CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
111–120 of 348 posts
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Duplicity [1] is a free software project that creates incremental backups and encrypts them using GPG. It can use Backblaze B2 [2] as a remote synchronization option, which when I looked at options last year was also the cheapest cloud storage provider anywhere (if this has changed, let me know!). Duplicity also supports a very wide array of other cloud storage services if you'd like to use another one [1]. The kille…
While it works well, Duplicity is rather slow and only supports expensive full-incremental-full backup cycles. Modern incremental-forever backup tools like borg[1] (fork of Attic[2]) are much faster since they are based on block hashing, which also gets you deduplication for free. Basically, a backup is a set of hashes - this means that you can selectively delete or retain old backups without having to merge them. I…
Borg is amazing, except for the lack of public key encryption, which makes it unusable: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same point about file recovery was why I chose Crash Plan and why I did not believe their plan could be sustainable. :(
There was probably a lot of abuse going on with the "unlimited" disk space aspect of it. I can imagine some people backing up their entire movie collection to their servers.
It's not "abuse" if you claim it's unlimited and people use it as if it were.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#114The only reason I used CrashPlan is that, on my home network, anything I'd want to back up is on my NAS. Are there alternative "consumer" solutions that support that?
SyncThing, perhaps?
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#115Well, this sucks. CrashPlan was awesome in that it doubled as both a backup app and a cloud storage solution. Since I had my settings set to NEVER remove deleted files, I didn't need to have each of my backed up external hard-drives plugged in at all times in order to have them backed up. I could just plug them in as needed, make sure Windows assigned them a unique drive letter, and let Crashplan sync any new data up…
I don't see how "truly unlimited" and "data hoarders" can ever be the basis of a sustainable business. Each additional terabyte costs them real money to store.
Pennies. And they have lots of them what with all that enterprise corporate schlong in their mouths. Hope that money shot tasted good, effing traitors!
Businesses over these things are stewards, they have a responsibility beyond profits and shareholders and "Put Your Biggest Customer First"
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#116Too bad Druva does not offer a home product.
I believe C42 allows reselling of their product. So, someone could buy in bulk from C42 and turn around and offer the same product to end users (at some markup). The issue would be moving the data from on "server" to the other. However, I think C42 offers tools to migrate data --not sure if individual one offs at a time is doable since you don't have access to their back end.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only about 1000 USD per month for what I have in Crashplan - I think I'll give it a pass.
GAH! How much are you storing in crash plan? 1000USD/mo seems a little insane. Is that after deduplication with tarsnap?
My data is already deduplicated - it's mostly video by volume. Total is in the region of 4T.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#118I 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…
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 reasoning for it, that "it's not an archiving tool", is beyond ridiculous.
And then their interface for restoring files is only from the website. Yes, even if you have to download a 15GB file you do it in the browser or ask them to ship the hard disk to you. I guess it's tough luck if you are in a different country, or different continent altogether.
I will stick to CrashPlan for the time being and go for the 1 year Small Business plan (at 75% discount for existing Home customers) but beyond that or maybe even before that I am looking at something solid and self-hosted. I already backup my Dropbox folder to Tarsnap (which has a kind of okay GUI now), I will look at Glacier or a VPS and backup using something like Attic or Borg. Sad they have no GUI. I feel confident about backup apps with a GUI - I find it intuitive to customize and can see in one look (or maybe keep seeing) what's happening if I want to.
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#119I 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…
Also works on Linux which Backblaze doesn't. I have Ubuntu on all the family and some extended family machines and using Crashplan currently.
Anyone can recommend if a good backup alternative that works on a Linux (desktop)?
Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
#120The comments are littered with lots of complaints, but very little alternative suggestions. Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup solution they actually like? I like BackBlaze as a company, but like many of the other commenters I have an issue with the 30 day deletion policy.