Win10 Crashplan and Auto Restarts

mattyg · 22 Aug 2017 at 11:29

Hi Folks

I've been away for a few weeks and I've had emails saying backups have not been completed.

I've got back home and turns out my Win10 Backup PC has had an update and restarted. Stopping at the login screen so Crashplan hasn't loaded.

How do I stop this from happening?

Is it going to just be a case of changing the update profile to downloading but not installing the updates

Ta

Stoner81 · 22 Aug 2017 at 12:23

Press Windows Key + R and type netplwiz in the box, this will allow the machine to boot straight in to a user account even if it has a password on it.

Stoner81.

Selekt0r · 22 Aug 2017 at 16:49

I wouldn't bother trying to fix this - Crashplan have just announced they are closing their backup service for Home users. You'll probably also get an email from them today if you haven't already.

Better to spend the time finding an alternative backup solution

Kainz · 22 Aug 2017 at 16:51

Just got the email having been with them for years. I'd recommend the post above. Don't bother fixing.

mattyg · 22 Aug 2017 at 18:15

Well thats a bummer... Yep got the email too.....

So, Alternatives then?

Stoner81 · 23 Aug 2017 at 12:43

I've started using Backblaze for $5 USD a month, the big downside is that it auto back ups your main drive (for which I have no need for) and this can not be changed. Other than though I can't fault it so far, upload speeds are slow but I'm uploading about 2TB of data atm and have been for last month or so (400KB/s is slow going and that's capped by them I think).

Stoner81.