ndmaio.blogg.se - Crashplan vs backblaze

I have tried most, if not all, of the backup programs and services that are available: some paid-for, and some free. Now is the time to start moving to an alternative. They gave everyone plenty of notice: if you already use it, you can keep using it until October 2018. Last year, CrashPlan withdrew its free home-user service. kept itself to itself, without getting in your way or justifying its existence by ‘scaring’ you into paying more for services you didn’t need.would email a weekly summary to let you know how things are going.would email to let you know if your PC hadn’t backed up for 3 days – and then again after 5 days.allowed you to backup to someone else’s computer, free – meaning offsite backups didn’t need a paid subscription.allowed you to make local backups – on a USB drive or second PC.

kept revisions of files – so you could restore a version of a file from last week if you accidentally overwrote it.

could make an offsite backup – keeping a copy of data away from your PC.

created an automatic backup – you didn’t need to do anything to keep it running.

was free to use for home users and simple small business use.

I have, for many years, recommended that people use CrashPlan to backup the data on their PC.