Crashplan closing for home users

Selekt0r

Selekt0r

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Just had an email from Crashplan advising that they are refocusing their business on the enterprise and small business segments, and will be withdrawing from the home backup market :mad:

They will honour up to the end of the current subscription.

After that, you can pay a lot extra for Crashplan Small Business (with 75% discount for the first year) - however the small business solution does not offer computer-to-computer backups.

The other alternative they are offering is a 50% discount for Carbonite (again, much more expensive for anyone with large amounts backed up with Crashplan).

Since my subscription has been rolling on a monthly basis they have given me a whole 60 days to select or find an alternative, after which time all of my data will be 'securely deleted'.

Gee - thanks! :mad:
 
I only just extended mine another year last month for £44 iirc! I've got about 1.4tb of data that now expires September 2018 according to that email. I've heard a lot of good things about Carbonite.
 
You're lucky - at least you have a decent amount of time to sort out an alternative. By the time I sort out an alternative I doubt I'll have enough time to upload it all before Crashplan deletes it - I've got around 2TB up there across 9 PCs/Laptops (I'm currently on the 10 PC 'family plan').

From a quick look at the alternatives it looks like sorting out an alternative PC-to-PC backup solution from all my machines to my home server, and then having a single 'Crashplan for Small Business' subscription (10$ per month, unlimited storage) to back everything up from that, might be the best short-term solution.

I'd ideally want to make sure that the PC-to-PC backup solution doesn't use windows networking/shares though to mitigate the ransomware/encryption risk.

Carbonite looks very expensive for anyone with more than about 250GB backup requirement.
 
Friend and I use the peer to peer function.

Apparently that's stopping too for absolutely no obvious reason.

One of the reasons I don't do cloud backups is precisely this!!
 
Complete waste of time and money. Paid for this for 2 years and my 12TB backup is only 20 days from completion. Their recommended alternative is also useless.
 
neodude said:
Complete waste of time and money. Paid for this for 2 years and my 12TB backup is only 20 days from completion. Their recommended alternative is also useless.
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How much was 12TB costing you?

I've had about 500GB protected by Crashplan, so a year's Carbonite for 30USD will save me money if I take that promo.

Another option is too buy a license a for Arq Backup - that gives you a front end to use Amazon, OneDrive, Dropbox etc - that's 50USD one-off

https://www.arqbackup.com/features/
 
Ouch, I had no idea all your backups were so large. Backblaze seems to be mentioned a lot in the wake of the Crashplan news. Not been able to check the website yet as it has crashed under load lol.
 
#Chri5# said:
How much was 12TB costing you?
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Just the standard $59.99 per year. Unlimited space.

The problem I have with most alternatives is that I currently run Crashplan as a Docker within UnRaid and there doesn't appear to be any alternative dockers available. I'm assuming that some of the clever UnRaid contributors will come up with something over the next few months as I think Crashplan had quite a following within the UnRaid community.
 
Well, after dithering and delaying sorting out off-site backup for months if not years I'd just got round to sorting this out, selected crashplan (was just about to go for the Amazon unlimited storage offer plus a backup frontend when they pulled that!) and uploaded everything when I got the email. From what I can see carbonite isn't an option as main backup will be from my server that runs Linux. I'll probably start looking S3/glacier solutions again before getting put off again working out what the actual costs are.
 
It's a ballache.

Backblaze is out because they don't support server operating systems, so looks like I'll be with the business package until I can figure out something more permanent.
 
This makes me grumpy. I don't have a huge amount of data in CrashPlan, about 1.4Tb but I do backups from 5 different machines so all the alternatives will be quite a bit more expensive.

Time to look into the options even though I'll have Crashplan until November 2018.
 
I'm surprised no one has made an unRAID docker container for something like this using Amazon AWS storage or something similarly cheap.
 
The business offer from crashplan is not good for me 7 pc's backing up at the moment so $70 a month. Not actually that much data volume wise though so the other package might work.

All sucks though, crashplan was slow but quite decent with many versions of the software knocking about.
 
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