Replacement for CrashPlan on Windows Home Server

ahar

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My CrashPlan account is coming to an end as they are no longer selling consumer plans and focusing on small businesses and beyond.

I currently have everything stored on a HP Microserver (music, videos, photos etc) running Windows Home Server 2011 which serves my needs very well. Except now!

Looking for a replacement for CrashPlan, it seems all of the consumer level plans have software that detects the server software and refuses to either install or work without a business account which are several times the cost of the personal plan. I'm not a business and don't need the cost or gubbins that their business level plans provide.

Does anyone use a similar service on Windows Home Server without having to buy a business plan? I'd like it to work much like CrashPlan - just sit there backing up everything to the cloud automatically without any intervention from me.

Any suggestions (that don't include me replacing the operating system on the server, I know I could do that but its a last resort)?

PS Should say I've tried BackBlaze, Carbonite and even the Crashplan Small Business versions. Not interested in dropbox etc as I'd need to go in and manually mess around every now and again
 
They have a trial version. Combined with backblaze B2 that could work well.

Will have a fiddle tonight
 
What's wrong with the CrashPlan Small Business plan? $60 a year for unlimited?
 
The client is a different application from the one that I'm using today. Code 42 (who now own crash plan) have stopped supporting installations on servers of any kind, and in a chat with their support team weren't sure if it would even install, let alone work properly.
 
Not sure where you got that from? You uninstall the Home client and install the Small Business client (the icon is blue instead of green, otherwise everything is identical), adopt the old identity of the server, and it picks up right where it left off (you have to have previously followed the process given in the email you received from CrashPlan for cutting over from home to Small Business).

Code 42 has always owned CrashPlan.

In summary: follow the link in the email CrashPlan sent you where they said "we are no longer supporting home users", uninstall the CP Home client and install the CP Small Business client, adopt the old identity of the server, job done. $15 for the first year and then $60 a year after that.
 
Wow! I had no idea. I can confirm it works fine on Windows 2012 R2. So... it's a small business offering that doesn't support backing up servers. Wow, Code 42 have made some extremely weird decisions.
 
It did seem strange to me - my original plan was to use their small business version as it's priced pretty keenly
 
Arq seems to be working so far with a couple of folders and Dropbox.

Next step is Backblaze B2 which seems remarkably cheap
 
Quick update to this - I think I'm going ahead with Arq and Backblaze B2. From my tests it seems to be the cheapest combination given what I want to do. Got to run a few more restore tests but otherwise it's looking good
 
CrashPlan have released the new non-Java version of the app for Small Business users. I did a complete uninstall of the old one (cleaned up any leftover directories) and then installed the new one fresh and it works fine on my Windows 2012 R2 server. So even if it's not supported, at least they're not actively doing anything to stop it from working (for now). The new app is much lower on RAM usage, which is great.
 
I have Crashplan Pro installed on a server running Server 2016 with no problems.

They even gave a further discount for moving from Crashplan home.
 
Yeah, it was just that @ahar highlighted that officially Windows Server versions aren't supported. Code 42 are going down the gurgler as far as I'm concerned. Talk about ******* off an enormous number of people.
 
That definitely put me off!

The combination of Arq and backblaze B2 is working well for a lower cost at the moment. We'll see how it goes - the good thing is backblaze is pay as you go so I can always go back to crash plan in the future
 
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