Anybody use crashplan?

I'm currently on a Amazon Prime Trial and if I can use them as an offsite backup I may go for the paid service. Currently all my photos are backed up to an internal drive and to a Synology NAS.
Ideally I'd like to backup the NAS discs to Amazon Cloud Drive but wondered whether:
1) The service will work directly to the NAS so the PC doesn't have to be on the whole time
2) The service can keep track of changes on the NAS and only update the changes?
3) Are there Versioned backups? I could recover files if some got deleted accidentally?

For those that are using it, what's your take on the above?
 
Just as an update to this.

I decided to trial SquirellSave at £5.05 p/m. Currently scanning files but I'll let you know upload speeds once the backup starts. Won't backup directly from NAS drives but I backup from Nas to External HD, then External to Cloud.
 
DoubleCheese said:
1) The service will work directly to the NAS so the PC doesn't have to be on the whole time
2) The service can keep track of changes on the NAS and only update the changes?
3) Are there Versioned backups? I could recover files if some got deleted accidentally?
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Most of the above will be dependant on the NAS. NAS' such as Synology tend to support Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier, not Amazon Drive.
 
DoubleCheese said:
I'm currently on a Amazon Prime Trial and if I can use them as an offsite backup I may go for the paid service. Currently all my photos are backed up to an internal drive and to a Synology NAS.
Ideally I'd like to backup the NAS discs to Amazon Cloud Drive but wondered whether:
1) The service will work directly to the NAS so the PC doesn't have to be on the whole time
2) The service can keep track of changes on the NAS and only update the changes?
3) Are there Versioned backups? I could recover files if some got deleted accidentally?

For those that are using it, what's your take on the above?
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I'll admit to not reading any documentation, but I do not think it can do any of those things. I'd gladly be proved wrong though. :)

I've got it running on a laptop and very simply uploading an entire folder (mapped network drive of photos on my Synology NAS).

I see this as an added bonus to my NAS backing up to Crashplan Cloud (headless client).

11 days in and I'm 457/695GB and counting...
 
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Is Crashplan still oversubbed so slow (they never did get mainland UK servers AFAIK, was on cards but nearest is Ireland).

I went with Livedrive after testing all main rivals that were similar survive/priced and get full speed but you would need buy a Briefcase at extra cost to do storage without backup.
 
Summary

I started uploading to Amazon on the 11th November and today the desktop app reports it's finished. It hasn't been on 100% of the time - maybe a total of 36-48 hrs offline.

I did start a timer using DU Meter, but it crashed. :rolleyes:

The final figures are 424.3GB of data (jpg) uploaded out of 695GB of data in the folder. The difference is made up of non-jpg files, e.g. avi, cr2, mmv, orf. Some were uploaded, up to my basic (5GB?) allowance, but only the jpg were uploaded as part of my 'don't count, Prime membership allowance'. So I'm a little confused as I thought RAW (specifically cr2) files were included in your unlimited allowance. (According to the error log.)

Supported File Types

The Cloud Drive website, Fire devices, and the Cloud Drive Photos apps for iOS and Android can be used to view the photos and videos stored in your account if they are one of the following common file types. Photo and video file types not listed below will still be stored in Cloud Drive; however, they may not be viewable as “photos” on these clients.

For photos: JPEG, BMP, PNG and most TIFF files (these files typically have the .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .png or .tiff extensions). In addition, some RAW format photo can also be viewed. For more information, go to About RAW Photo Files.
For videos: MP4, Quicktime, AVI, MTS, MPG, ASF, WMV, Flash and OGG. In addition, videos must be less than 20 minutes long to play them via these clients.

Note: The unlimited photos storage benefit for Prime members only applies to files recognized as photo files.
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Until Amazon include the ability with their cloud drive product to select folders to sync; the service is of little use to me. I find it hard that others aren't kicking up a fuss about this. :confused:

Amazon Glacier has become a lot better to control the cost of restores, something which bugged me. They have introduced means to limit the restore rates from their level:

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You can now set a download speed limit, without the need to rely on an application to do that for you. This is definitely the way I am going to go. Setting a retrieval rate of 2GB an hour equates to 1.3TB transfered per month for £10.13.

It is more costly than Crashplan and obviously slower to get your data back, unless you want to open your wallet. But.. I'm fed up of how oversubscribed Crashplan is and they are obviously constantly having their backbone fully saturated, and I see a fraction of my upload bandwidth being used. With Glacier I get my full 1.5MB/s of up stream being utilised.
 
I'm using Amazon for a few tb. Using both glacier and s3. Most of my data now is on a NAS, so it just does it's thing overnight. Costs are brilliant. For a business, we can't find a cheaper service that comes better rated.
 
bcjames said:
I'm using Amazon for a few tb. Using both glacier and s3. Most of my data now is on a NAS, so it just does it's thing overnight. Costs are brilliant. For a business, we can't find a cheaper service that comes better rated.
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what NAS do you have? and how much per month would you say you use? or Year?
 
I'll have to check the data figures, but in the office our dev server backs up itself, plus a WD ex4, and it's around £15 a month. I have a 2tb Synology at home about half full I think, and that hasn't cost me anything yet.
 
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