Crashplan for Home discontinued

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TeaLeaf

August 28, 2017, 07:58:34 AM
Those of you who use the consumer version of Crashplan need to find a new home by 22 Ocotber 2018, so at least you have a year to find a new cloud solution for your data!

https://blog.code42.com/data-protection-needs-diverge/

Quote from: Code 42First, we will honor all existing CrashPlan for Home subscriptions and the data we store for consumers will remain protected. Second, we are offering a choice to transition to either our CrashPlan for Small Business product or to our preferred third-party consumer backup provider, Carbonite.

Choices for Crashplan for Home users:
https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/

TL.
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BrotherTobious

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September 01, 2017, 11:33:32 AM
Yeah got the email, what do you use at the moment chief?
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Chaosphere

#2
September 01, 2017, 02:42:23 PM
Have you looked at carbonite Toby? May be perfect for what you need. I'm looking for more cold storage but it seems to be limited to business use unfortunately.
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TeaLeaf

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September 01, 2017, 03:50:45 PM
Quote from: BrotherTobious;426141Yeah got the email, what do you use at the moment chief?
I use both a Gdrive and a Dropbox account, both paid upgrade to 1TB.   They just work.
Quote from: Chaosphere;426142Have you looked at carbonite Toby? May be perfect for what you need. I'm looking for more cold storage but it seems to be limited to business use unfortunately.
I had issues with Carbonite (and Crashplan), neither worked as well as they should, and both managed to not perform up to expectations.  More complex directories resulted in lost stuff with no recovery and no explanation, just missing files.    I've used both and personally I'd not go back to either Carbonite or Crashplan.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

BrotherTobious

#4
September 01, 2017, 05:43:44 PM
So I take you are just dragging or are you saving your work to these dbox and gdrive rather than  you hard drives?  Or do they a program that does the back ups for you?
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

TeaLeaf

#5
September 01, 2017, 06:35:48 PM
I have moved My Docs and other standard folders into GDrive.   I set up my other folders & directories within GDrive.   GDrive then auto backsup everything any time a change is made.   Dropbox I do similar with but for other aspects of my life, but also hosts a data only backup (via Acronis) of several things that are outside GDrive/Dropbox folders.   There is no dragging anything, it is fully automatic.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

BrotherTobious

#6
September 01, 2017, 07:14:08 PM
Thanks mate something to ponder
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

faust82

#7
September 03, 2017, 12:17:31 PM
I'm looking to change the way I store things. My setup is similar to what TL describes, but it's not a true backup solution no matter how Google has rebranded Drive.
No protection against accidental deletes or overwrites. Changes are synced, and then you're screwed.

I'm considering looking for a sync solution with proper backup features such as deleted file recovery (beyond just the trash folder) and version management.
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BrotherTobious

#8
September 03, 2017, 04:57:39 PM
I am now looking at a synology for backup now as what I have read has not filled me with glee.
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

TeaLeaf

#9
September 04, 2017, 10:47:49 AM
Quote from: faust82;426178No protection against accidental deletes or overwrites. Changes are synced, and then you're screwed.

I'm considering looking for a sync solution with proper backup features such as deleted file recovery (beyond just the trash folder) and version management.
Well, both Dropbox and Gdrive do provide some protection.  

Dropbox has I think 30 days ont he free version, more on the paid versions.  
Gdrive has a similar policy, but my paid storage shows deleted files going back at least 6 months.

My Acronis runs weekly full and then daily incremental backups too, and I keep at least a month of these at any one time, so between Gdrive, Dropbox and Acronis backups I always have several ways to get at an older file.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#10
September 04, 2017, 10:51:30 AM
Quote from: BrotherTobious;426179I am now looking at a synology for backup now as what I have read has not filled me with glee.
Build your own Synology by getting an HP microserver and putting your own OS and disks into it.   Mine is an HP ProLiant N40L with 15TB storage.   It seems to do the job well enough and has been running stable for almost 5 years now (and yes, is getting close to pre-emptive replacement/retirement), but was way better value than a Synology or similar proprietary solution.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

faust82

#11
September 07, 2017, 07:00:14 PM
I've used the HP microservers for work, but they're getting a bit long in the tooth. They need to release the G9 soon, preferably with raid5 as a standard option.

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Liberator

#12
September 07, 2017, 07:59:58 PM
They skipped the G9 and went straight to G10.

Microserver G10
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