Crashplan Dropping Home Users !!1

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Thr0tt

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Any recommendations as to an alternative as I don't want to take their as they decided to drop the home users !

Have until next year to sort but I wonder how long they will stay around with just their business model now up against the big boys of big data.
 
I'll probably either switch to a small business plan or switch to Carbonite. I can't handle uploading everything again. It took months last time to fully upload all my files at the slow transfer speed offered by Crashplan.

Overall I'm a bit irritated about how they're going about this. I think the better thing to do would be to stop accepting new subscriptions, and just raise the price of the subscription if necessary. Why kick us off or force us to make some weird transition?
 
Nagorak said:
I'll probably either switch to a small business plan or switch to Carbonite. I can't handle uploading everything again. It took months last time to fully upload all my files at the slow transfer speed offered by Crashplan.
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Carbonite will probably do the same thing sometime soon. Not sure how slow crashplan is but carbonite only gives you 10mpbs on the upload and download, which is about 11 days per TB at optimal speed.
 
DigitalDemon said:
Carbonite will probably do the same thing sometime soon. Not sure how slow crashplan is but carbonite only gives you 10mpbs on the upload and download, which is about 11 days per TB at optimal speed.
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I think with Crashplan I only averaged a few mbps. It was terrible. I'm contemplating just setting up a NAS at a family or friend's house and doing a backup that way. I could do a local one, but I suppose that would still be lost in a nuclear war or something (then again, if a nuke hit my city, I guess losing my backup would be the least of my concerns).
 
That's what I do. When Amazon stopped the ACD unlimited plan, I decided that online cloud backups will never provide long term service. So I bit the bullet and put in a little Synology DS1817+ at my work. Plenty of room for my tier 1&2 data secondary backups, and as fast as I can upload.
 
BackBlaze with unlimited looks like an option, but since my subscription renewed less than a month a go then I have to wait 12 months before I switch or lose my years subscription as they wont refund.

Agreed that if they offered an increase to existing and no new subs that would be a better customer experience.
 
Thr0tt said:
BackBlaze with unlimited looks like an option, but since my subscription renewed less than a month a go then I have to wait 12 months before I switch or lose my years subscription as they wont refund.
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I'm in the exact same boat. My sub renewed last month. I'm planning on going with BackBlaze myself when my current sub expires.
 
Glad I got tape. Slow on seeks, but I'm getting 140MB/s constant write/read (LTO-6, 7 reaches 300) and ebay has some good deals every now and then. Had to set up RAID0 on 4 15k drives and FastCopy 4GB RAM cache just to keep the tape from slowing down. SSDs would help, but too expensive...

I'm not sure what is worse: slow and controlled, or too fast :lol:
 
kboye said:
Glad I got tape. Slow on seeks, but I'm getting 140MB/s constant write/read (LTO-6, 7 reaches 300) and ebay has some good deals every now and then. Had to set up RAID0 on 4 15k drives and FastCopy 4GB RAM cache just to keep the tape from slowing down. SSDs would help, but too expensive...

I'm not sure what is worse: slow and controlled, or too fast :lol:
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Do you perform offsite backups too with your tapes in case your house burns down ? Just curious.
 
Yes, multiple places for the most important stuff. Half across the country.

I mean, I'm just a home user. Do love tech and data though..
 
DigitalDemon said:
That's what I do. When Amazon stopped the ACD unlimited plan, I decided that online cloud backups will never provide long term service. So I bit the bullet and put in a little Synology DS1817+ at my work. Plenty of room for my tier 1&2 data secondary backups, and as fast as I can upload.
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What are you using to backup to the NAS? I'm trying Cloud Station Backup to a friend's Synology but turns out there's a baffling limit on files greater than 10GB built into the app... :(
 
I use Goodsync. They have server apps for most popular NAS systems. I use Windows Goodsync to backup my local esxi mounted drives to itself, then tunnel over to my work via SSH2 or openvpn and sync with the Synology running the Goodsync server. Has no problems with my 4k camera videos that easily reach 50GB+.

They also have what's called Goodsync connect, basically an optional Goodsync account that sets up the remote connection to your remote servers. Though for maximum security I prefer to setup my own tunnels.

https://www.goodsync.com/for-nas-synology
 
Hmm I wonder if there's a free solution? Don't feel like forking out usd30 just to upload automatically the 3 files I can just upload manually and keep on using CSB...
 
I ended up sticking with Crash Plan, but I'm not sure I'm happy with it. Uploads seem to have gotten slower than ever. They've now hidden what your upload rate is though, so you can't actually see.

On top of that every few days it keeps resyncing my block information. The problem is my backup archive is so large that this takes one or two full days to do, meanwhile I obviously have no backup. :nuts:

For the most part losing one or two days of data wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's still annoying.
 
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