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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.
Looking forward to seeing CrashPlan on the 2018 Startup Dead Pool.
So what's a good Linux consumer solution? We here are all capable of rolling our own hacks, sure. But I want a good clean friendly product I don't have to configure or think about. The real challenge in these things is the UX for restoring files. (For home-grown options, I've been using rsnapshot for years. But it really works best on a local disk and the rsync-over-ssh hacks I've done are the opposite of "clean cons…
I have a mirrored 2x6TB setup that all of my computers back up to. It shows up as an Apple TimeMachine, so MacBook backup and restore is easy; and then it also some media storage with automatic nightly/weekly/monthly snapshots - the monthly ones hang around for a year, the others are cleaned up sooner. For those, I have to un-hide the snapshot folders, but then I can just copy-paste any deleted files that I want to restore.
It definitely takes some setup work, but I've been pretty happy overall.
That server is in my basement, my work laptop also has CrashPlan for off-site backups, but that's a business plan, so it won't be affected by this. I do need to figure out an off-site backup for the rest of it...
So what's a good Linux consumer solution? We here are all capable of rolling our own hacks, sure. But I want a good clean friendly product I don't have to configure or think about. The real challenge in these things is the UX for restoring files. (For home-grown options, I've been using rsnapshot for years. But it really works best on a local disk and the rsync-over-ssh hacks I've done are the opposite of "clean cons…
Am I being thick, looking around their entire site and I can't see the price anywhere. Even the FAQ says to sign up to a trial, give your credit card info and then you see the price...
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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.
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Tarsnap is not reasonable alternative for most users. Consider that I was paying $5/mo for 200GB of storage from CrashPlan. From tarsnap, that would be $50/mo. And, frankly, my measly 200GB isn't much data. A 2TB HDD costs under $100 and could cost $500/mo to back up with tarsnap. It would still have been $5/mo with CrashPlan. I get that Colin is basically just charging the S3 costs plus a small margin, but the reali…
I backup quite a bit and after deduplication with tarsnap it's not nearly as much.
The majority of my most important backup data is my photos. I don't see how tarsnap could duplicate (or even further compress) that.
1. encrypts stuff on the client machine 2. has a pluggable backend - i.e. can push to one (or several of) e.g. S3, equivalent commodity cloud offerings, an NFS server or an arbitrary server 3. Rotates backups 4. Depuplicates (does this conflict with clientside encryption?) 5. "Just works" (I'm happy with a config file)
In my mental checklist of evaluating new products and services, Backblaze has always gone above and beyond while Crashplan irritated me enough to make me switch: * Are they one of the market leaders? * Do they have a company blog? Are they passionate about their product? (Backblaze's technical articles are always a treat; barely a word from Crashplan.) * Do they regularly interact with their users, e.g. on HN? (I oft…
* Do they have a Linux client? -No * Do they allow you to recover deleted files? -No (I have used this a few times, it saved some of the digitized family photos which I blew away with an rsync --delete flag) * Do they offer secondary products that relate to their primary offering? Ok, I can read that as they are stretching too thin not focusing on backups enough. Will they announce they are dropping out of consumer b…