Crashplan or not to

[nicknack35]

Right all just done a yearly Sub to crashplan not sure if i have made the right choice just read few reviews saying it was good. So i took the plunge. When i really should have tested it first. Im new to this sort of online back up and seeing that its good for novices i thought i was making the right choice. So looking on a USA forum they really do Slate the software up something rotten. Anybody use this back up software at all. Thanks

 

[bscott]

I have been using Crashplan for 2-3 years and find it very good.

I am currently backing up a Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and 2 Windows 10 PCs and a Windows VM to Crashplan cloud and locally to Crashplan running in a Debian Jail on a FreeNAS box. The FreeNAS box also backs up to Crashplan cloud and the Macbook Pro backs up to an external HDD.

You will find the initial backup to the cloud slow but once that is complete only changes are backed up and so long as you take some time to select only the files that need backing up you should be OK.

The client is written in Java and I have not found any limitations but did have problems running it headless on FreeBSD on the NAS box which is why I switched to a Debian jail.

I thoroughly recommend Crashplan.

 

[KIA]

Yes, always try before you purchase any online backup service.

My speeds to Crashplan from the UK have always been very poor, I'm lucky if I get 2Mb/s up.

YMMV.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

I've been a CrashPlan user for years, and yes, it's definitely not fast, but it is very reliable. Upload speed doesn't really matter as long as the stuff does get backed up. And obviously you shouldn't be backing up e.g. your Downloads folder. As long as you keep it focused to backing up the stuff that is truly valuable (documents, photos, maybe music?) it's completely fine and fit for purpose. For the price it can't be beat in terms of functionality.

 

[sebna]

I have around 10tb of backup with them. If unlimited storage is what you are after then I can not recommend them more. They are very good and very hard to beat on price / performance ratio. Use them for 4-5 years now.