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Crashplan pricing change!

sourceninja

sourceninja

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I know most of us love time machine, but we still want offsite backups.

We have heard of Mozy and the like. They are all basically similar, they backup to online storage that you pay monthly for, usually encrypted. What sets crashplan apart is that you can also backup to your friends, or to local drives. You can supply your own key for encryption and never pay a monthly fee by backing up to your friends house.

I have been using it that way, however a new pricing change may change that. Crashplan is now $5.00 a month for unlimited storage for every computer in your home. If you want an individual computer it is $3.50 a month for unlimited storage.

It's worth looking into. Oh yea, it can also backup inside filevault (if you are logged in as that user).
 
It's blocked at work, but I am interested in the backing up to your friends house thing. My friend and I had talked about popping an extra drive into each of our computers, allowing us to both have remote backups. This might make the setup a lot easier...
 
if the backup is to a local drive or network drive, would this work with Migration Assistant? I don't really need a boot able backup but I would like something that would make a system restore as easy as possible.
 
It backsup into an encrypted container so no, it is not going to help you in that regards, you need crashplan software to get into the crashplan backups.
 
thanks. I came to the same conclusion when I read that the backups are encrypted. Little OT, but maybe someone has a similar scenario ....

I only have a laptop at home that travels with me on a daily basis. At home I have a 1TB MyBook Drive that I use for TimeMachine Backups. I had originally planned on connection it to my Airport Extreme Base Station, but upon on further research I found that 1) It's not really supported via TimeMachine 2) it does work but some peeps have reported data corruption. The wireless solution appealed to me since I don't have to plug anything into the laptop to initiate a backup.

As it stands right now, each night I have to connect the external drive to the laptop and let TimeMachine do it's thing. Kind of a pain in the ass. I'd like to find a solution that:

1. is compatible with migration assistant
2. do across the network to an airdisk
3. has file version capability

I'd like the whole thing to be somewhat transparent .. ie I come home and open the laptop .. the laptop wakes up .. mounts the airdisk and starts the backup ... any thoughts?
 
... or hook the drive up to a Airport Extreme via USB. This is how I do my whole house backups at the moment. Plus I use Backblaze and another drive at my office.
 
Originally posted by: Kmax82
... or hook the drive up to a Airport Extreme via USB. This is how I do my whole house backups at the moment. Plus I use Backblaze and another drive at my office.
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I can do this .. and have done that, but it's my understanding that this isn't officially supported? and can lead to the sparsebundle being ccorrupted?

I have everything in place to make that work .. so if it's a proven method than I'll just go ahead and do that.
 
Originally posted by: Need4Speed

I can do this .. and have done that, but it's my understanding that this isn't officially supported? and can lead to the sparsebundle being ccorrupted?

I have everything in place to make that work .. so if it's a proven method than I'll just go ahead and do that.
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Well.. I thought that they do, but I'm not positive on this. So far it's been working fine, knock on wood. If money is no object, I'd probably grab the new 2TB Time Capsule.
 
you have to pay for 3 years ($180) to get it for for $5 / month.
otherwise for unlimited family computers it is $100 / year. ($8.33 / month)

$180 isn't bad considering what you get. it's just scary trusting that a company will still be around in 3 years.

edit. personally, i would do the individual plan. i would have all my computers sync to my server, then have crashplan backup my server.
 
To me 180 bucks isn't too large of a risk. I don't see them going out of business anytime soon. Currently I use them only between my own machines. I am really considering buying crashplan+ (for the increased encryption) and backing up to their online service.
 
Well, they have a seed program where you can pay to have them ship you a USB drive for the inital seed so you don't have to wait weeks for it to seed via your internet connection.
 
Originally posted by: sourceninja
Well, they have a seed program where you can pay to have them ship you a USB drive for the inital seed so you don't have to wait weeks for it to seed via your internet connection.
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That's a brilliant idea if it's not more than around $20-30.
 
Originally posted by: Kmax82
Originally posted by: sourceninja
Well, they have a seed program where you can pay to have them ship you a USB drive for the inital seed so you don't have to wait weeks for it to seed via your internet connection.
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That's a brilliant idea if it's not more than around $20-30.
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If you choose ground shipping (cheapest method) it is $125. That seems way overpriced to me.

-KeithP
 
I have no problem just doing the seed via the internet. I only have about 300 gigs of stuff I actually want backed up.

But yea, I wouldn't go for the shipped seed. It's too pricey. I'd consider it if it was 49.99 however.
 
wedi42 said:
you have to pay for 3 years ($180) to get it for for $5 / month.
otherwise for unlimited family computers it is $100 / year. ($8.33 / month)

$180 isn't bad considering what you get. it's just scary trusting that a company will still be around in 3 years.

edit. personally, i would do the individual plan. i would have all my computers sync to my server, then have crashplan backup my server.
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gd idea, i hav thought of that but its in violation of their terms of use!!!
 
If your backing up critical data that you would consider spending money on, it doesn't make sense to me to trust it to any source that could potentially exploit that data, whether it be directly or indirectly. In my opinion, if that data your backing up isn't of such a quantity that backing up through the internet is a burden, then why don't you just buy an extra external drive, back it up, and place that drive in another secure location...possible a safety deposit box or your in a small safe in a families house.

For large volumes of data, I would still prefer an on site backup server in addition to the primary. Sure, it would cost a bit to implement, but anyone with that much data around isn't backing up saved game files and family pictures.

For me, encryption is a poor substitute for lost privacy/security due to allowing a third party to handle it.

My .02 Maybe I'm just over thinking it.
 
Can 1.3TB of data be backed up under the unlimited plan? I've also looked at BackBlaze, but I don't know what "unlimited" really means.
 
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