Additionally, the ability to do point-in-time restores came in handy on several occasions. The fact that CrashPlan was essentially "always on" and doing frequent backups without ever having to think about it was fantastic. Welcome to the communityįor several years, I used CrashPlan to back up my family's computers, including machines belonging to my wife and siblings.In the email, they mention Carbonite is their preferred Home use partner and are offering a 50% discount to Crashplan subscribers. So eventually, I'll need to look to a new backup provider. We will send you reminders well before your CrashPlan for Home subscription ends. Once you make your selection, no further action is required until your new expiration date. Your first step is to consider the options below, available exclusively for CrashPlan for Home customers. Your new subscription expiration date is. To allow you time to transition to a new backup solution, we've extended your subscription (at no cost to you) by 60 days. We will honor your existing CrashPlan for Home subscription, keeping your data safe, as always, until your current subscription expires. We are committed to providing you with an easy and efficient transition. This means that over the next 14 months we will be exiting the consumer market and you must choose another option for data backup before your subscription expires. We want you to know that we have shifted our business strategy to focus on the enterprise and small business segments. Unfortunately it's going to ultimately run me twice what it used to. I'll have to read more into that.įor the size of my backup right now (and the fact that I'm on Linux), I think I'm probably best off staying with Crashplan. I can provide offsite backups for them and then pay for my own service (their total data use is ~10gb).
Have not had a chance to install Duplicati yet.ĭuplicati looks like it could take care of the family issue for me. I've tested ARQ so far and while the interface is not great it seems to get the job done on my test dataset. Most other consumer backup solutions won't let you backup from a NAS so looking at other options.Ĭurrently looking at either Duplicati or ARQ to and backing up to Backblaze B2.īackblaze B2 is pay for what you use so I'll have to be more selective on my backup set but at least I don't have to worry about another "unlimited" plan going away. I'm in the same boat, been using Crashplan to backup my NAS (where all my data lives) for years now. Also be interested to see how the other services react to this as they stand to gain customers. I'd be interested to hear what others are making of this scenario.
I already have a NAS here that backs up my PC and the NAS is duplicated offsite with Elephant Drive. From what I have heard Backblaze is much faster and easier to deal with. Carbonite - which Code42 are recommending to people who do not wish to remain with them. For $50 per year per machine its a great deal and apparently very fast. This is attractive because they already have my stuff - and its cheaper still.
After that, enjoy 75% off the regular price for the next 12 consecutive months. move your data* into CrashPlan for Small Business for the remainder of your current subscription for free. Migrate to their business plan: $10 per month - I was paying $12 for the family plan so I would save money but not able to backup wifes computer as well. Now they are pulling the plug on this the options seem to be:ġ.
I also like the fact that I can use the family plan to backup three computers. I was with Mozy for a long time - until they killed their unlimited plan.Ĭhanged to Crashplan and I like the way it works and restores, though the interface is awful.