What are /r/Crashplan's favorite Products & Services?

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I switched from CrashPlan to Duplicacy backing up to a GSuite account. Using the command-line Duplicacy client on FreeBSD and Windows 10, have it setup to launch via cron and Task Scheduler.

https://www.arqbackup.com/ - I am trying this out now for local backups (NAS and USB). It does pretty good but I miss the email reports that crashplan had. You can setup email options if it is supported by your email provider.

As a cloud option you could try this https://wasabi.com/ I have not used it but others have and claim it is fairly cheap and easy to setup with ARQ.

https://www.arqbackup.com/ Just installed this and using it to backup locally. I have a network drive and a local USB drive. One thing I will miss is the email reports. It was convenient to know if my computer didn't backup for 3 days.

As a cloud option with ARQ https://wasabi.com/

> Considerations

> * Version 6.6.0 of the CrashPlan for Small Business app is currently only available for Windows and Linux devices. > * Review the CrashPlan for Small Business requirements to ensure your system is compatible with the new and improved CrashPlan for Small Business app. > * Although 32-bit Linux systems are unsupported, previous versions of the CrashPlan for Small Business app would still function on these devices. Beginning with version 6.6.0, the CrashPlan for Small Business app does not function on 32-bit Linux devices.
> * Although using CrashPlan for Small Business on a headless computer and installing CrashPlan for Small Business on a NAS device are unsupported, previous versions of the CrashPlan for Small Business app would still function in these configurations. However, beginning with version 6.6.0, the CrashPlan for Small Business app does not function in either of these configurations.

Personally, the dropping of headless support is a real pain. The machine I'm backing up doesn't have a UI available. This was one of the reasons I picked crashplan.

From the intro vide, the UI seems extremely simplified. Hopefully that isn't a bad thing. Hopefully the multiple set support from the current client carries over.

I'm in the same situation but I don't understand why one computer will cost $150 now? I thought the Business Plan is $10/month/computer for unlimited data, so it still seems pretty reasonable? Did I miss some fine print somewhere? https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/compare/

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/download?os=mac maybe? I think the new version is 6.x, old version is 4.x.

Edit: Looks like the 6.x version might only be for CrashPlan Pro customers, so it's gated behind a login page.

From my experience it has always been this way. If you wish to turn switch settings like compression, de duplication back on, I would contact support

Found it https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/features/compare/

Duplicati can create versioned backups, store them locally (or remotely) and send notifications. It is simply an application and so does not provide cloud storage itself.

rclone supports

Arch-OS Windows macOS Linux .deb .rpm FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Plan9 Solaris

https://rclone.org/downloads/

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wasabi S3 storage, Google Workspace and many others.

• duplicacy
• duplicati
• borgbackup
• restic
• ...

So far Duplicacy is looking like my pick, but I've only been researching for a short time.

I also just came across OVH for storage.

https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/cloud-archive/

There is software that can use cloud storage service storage to implement backup.

For example - https://www.qualeed.com/en/qbackup/ has a long list of storage it supports (citing this SW because I'm evaluating it now as a Crashplan replacement for myself):

• SFTP
• Amazon S3
• Google Cloud Storage
• Microsoft Azure Storage
• Oracle Storage Cloud Service
• Rackspace Cloud Files
• Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
• S3 Compatible Storage
• OpenStack Swift

It does not explicitly list OneDrive - but I'm pretty sure other SW out there will likely have support for it.

Edit: here is the one that supports OneDrive http://duplicity.nongnu.org. (did not evaluate so can't recommend yet)

Edit2: Arq supports backup to OneDrive

Try a trial of Arq Backup for comparison. https://www.arqbackup.com/download/

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CrashPlan has become really slow on PC and MAC in the last year. After 10 years and hundeds of computers. I moved on from them. Restoring is slow with CrashPlan.

ARQ is great after months of testing many different software tools I purchased ARQ. Tested on multiple systems and OSes. I went with idrive.com, G suite Business account and Wasabi.com One of the datasets is 4.2 TB it took about a month off and on at 10 Mbps to upload the data initially with ARQ. On the rare day when there isn't a change in the dataset, ARQ scans the files in less than 5 minutes. The OS is Windows 8.1, i5 Processor with 8GB of RAM. The data is on the local hard drive and 2 NAS boxes on gigabit connections. The ISP upload is 10 Mbps.

Duplicacy as a backup tool (cross platform, open source, written in Golang, ridiculously fast, robust and flexible).

B2 as backend storage works well.

If you have more than 2TB consider G-Suite as the backend. $12/month, unlimited storage (750GB/day max ingress and 10TB/day egress limits). Technically, you must have 5 accounts to get unlimited data -- but they don't enforce that. The caveat -- since goggle drive is a file sharing api it is not designed for bulk storage so some operations (such as backup thing, pruning, etc may be slow). Relevant recent thread.

Myself I stick to B2. Been using that for few years now -- no complaints so far.

I use the CLI, which is free for personal use. Quoting from this page:

> The CLI version is free for personal use so there are no personal licenses for the CLI version. In addition, if the purpose is to restore or manage existing backups, the CLI version can be run by anyone on any computer without a valid license.

It can be downloaded from their GitHub "releases" page.

You're right, but also in duplicacy. See https://duplicacy.com/guide.html they seems to support the same protocols. So I was wondering why in the file one is checked but not in the other. I supposed you used ftp as p2p.

I don't see it called out very well, but you can see Local Destinations in the first screenshot here https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/features/. Also, my work uses CP Pro and backs up to local hard drives.

> All computers can see and restore all files from all computers by default. Why would I want my parents to have access to all my files??? Obviously in a family plan, the computers are going to be used by different members of the family. Why would anyone want everything to be visible to everyone else?

I view "Family Plan" as a couple and possibly kids. I'm okay with my wife having access to my backups, she has access to all my non-work stuff anyway. And once my daughter is old enough I'm okay with gating her access to the UI.

If you want individual accounts, PRO is $10/computer/mo and has the ability to be an admin + individual accounts. (And instead of being an upsell on the Family page, that difference is on the PRO page instead...?)

If you aren't concerned with versioning (which is what Crashplan excels at), you should consider an Amazon unlimited account or Office 365 subscription. They are the cheapest ways to get unlimited storage.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home/

https://preview.onedrive.com/?wt.mc_id=oo_blog_onedrive_insertblogtitlehere

Microsoft is in the process of enabling unlimited storage for everyone. It took about a week for them to up my storage from 1TB to 10TB (they give you another 10TB every time you get close to the previous 10TB).

Onedrive's resources scale with the number of files instead of the file sizes. I dunno about Amazon's since I've never used them.

CrashPlan is not a data sync service - it's a backup service. It won't (or might, but with a lot of pain) do what you're describing: syncing data across multiple devices in real time. Google Drive/Dropbox/etc... are the kinds of things you should be looking at, as best as I can tell.

You might consider SugarSync: https://www.sugarsync.com/

I've switch to B2 Cloud + Duplicati and I like it for now.

Duplicati does NOT backup your file by just encrypting and uploading them.

If you browse you B2 Cloud bucket, you'll see dblock files. That is where your data is. Duplicati cuts you files in 100KB blocks (by default). When the amount of blocks reaches a certain value (50 MB by default), Duplicati assemble them in "volume" of 50MB (by default), encrypt it and uploads it.

So even if the file you wanna restore only weights 2KB, it will have to download the whole volume in which you file is to be restored. As as said, the size if the volumes can be changed. Here a link that will greatly help you : Choosing Sizes in Duplicati.

Beware : don't mistake block size and volume size.

How did you know that it failed to delete? Wouldn't it just catch that the files don't exist next time?

I haven't read it thoroughly, but according to their white paper files are broken up into blocks placed into volumes, and volumes are only occasionally processed to remove unused blocks to save on bandwidth.

https://cryptomator.org Lightwight, strong ecryption, cross-platform, open source After your files have been processed by all above layers, they are finally stored into your chosen directory. "[after passing files to a remote NAS enrypted] This is where Cryptomator's job is done and the synchronization client of your favorite cloud provider will start synchronization."

https://cryptomator.org

Lightwight, storng ecryption, cross-platform, open source

After your files have been processed by all above layers, they are finally stored into your chosen directory.

"[after passing files to a remote NAS enrypted] This is where Cryptomator's job is done and the synchronization client of your favorite cloud provider will start synchronization."

It isn't what I'd call an ideal solution but you could use programs like Syncthing or Resilio Sync to keep a folder containing backups created by your backup alternative in sync across the Internet. Maybe use something to schedule making a copy of the folder periodically to have to have a cold archive in case something gets sync'd that shouldn't.

I just tested it on Windows 10 and it worked pretty well (on Node.js 8.11). You just have to install Node.js and them from a command line shell you follow the instructions from the Github page (install the package via npm and start the log viewer).

I didn't have a running CrashPlan instance on Windows though, so I couldn't make sure the real time feature worked properly.

I thought I had seen that one come through. It is very possible that what we are hitting here is because of bandwidth issues. If you run a speedtest what do you get?

That's either due to a serious bug (pending relaunch) or something less than good

ADDENDUM : Hard link still works : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code42.crashplanpro.android&hl=en_GB (for me at least, shows installed)

However : https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Code+42+Software returns "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."

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