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CrashPlan Alternatives
I've been using CrashPlan since 2014 to back up my ReadyNAS (about 9 TBytes used out of 20 TByte capacity). It's been great. Unlimited, continuous, encrypted, versioning backups running on the Read...
Thanks to all those who replied.
Sadly, from these responses and my other inquiries, it seems that CrashPlan, even at twice the old price, is still the only viable solution for my case. Everything else either--and there are lots of other options--doesn't run under Linux or has a monthly cost for my use case that is an order of magnitude or more higher than even CrashPlan Pro.
The closest, widely-discussed alternative is BackBlaze. Unfortunately, their personal plan which is unlimited, inexpensive, and seems generally good, does not run under Linux. They do have a well-regarded B2 Cloud Storage plan which has multiple clients which might run om ReadyNAS, but it has a metered cost that would be much more expensive than CrashPlan Pro. The implication of discussions by the Backblaze CEO is that they have no plans to change either.
So when my CrashPlan Home plan expires at the end of the year, I plan to transition to CrashPlan Pro/SMB.
But if somebody comes up with something better (ideally before then!), please do respond here.
I'll convert my existing subscription anyway, since that is free.
But I'll stop running it on the NAS itself - instead I'll run it on a PC with the NAS volume mounted. That's been on my "to-do" list for a while anyway.
I'm considering doing the same thing Stephen, but wasn't 110% sure if it was possible? The Home product does not allow you to backup a network drive, does the SMB product allow this? Or, when you say "mounted" do you mean mounted in a location under a physical hard drive letter?
I assume this would rehydrate the data; I think the dedupe is not account global but just client specific?
The thing I'm going to miss the most about CrashPlan Home is the computer-to-computer backup. I had my NAS as a secondary destination for some of my critical data.
oshae wrote:
The Home product does not allow you to backup a network drive, does the SMB product allow this?
See this article: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Back_up_files_from_a_Windows_network_drive
For the CrashPlan app version 4.3 and later, you can install the CrashPlan app per user. This installation allows you to add the mapped drive to your backup file selection just as you would any other drive. If the CrashPlan app is already installed for everyone on your computer, you can completely uninstall the CrashPlan app and reinstall per user instead
This applied to Crashplan Home also.
oshae wrote:
The thing I'm going to miss the most about CrashPlan Home is the computer-to-computer backup. I had my NAS as a secondary destination for some of my critical data.
My daughter's laptop is backed up to my Pro that way. I agree it was a nice feature.
Your idea of backing up my NAS from Windows client got me thinking.
I've been testing CloudBerry Desktop with BackBlaze B2 storage. So far it's working really well. It does block level backups (I assume this is dedupe). B2 storage is pretty cheap as well. $0.005/GB/month. I read that CloudBerry only let's you add one network share but so far that does not seem to be the case. Either way, I can point it at \\readynas\c and configure what I want to backup under that.
I might convert my CP plan to Small Business just because I can, and see how things go to compare.
So CloudBerry is ok, but unfortunately they have a data protection cap of 1TB. WTF?
Arq is another alternative that can connect to many cloud services and doesn't have such restrictions.
Stephen, is there any specific reason for your desire to backup your NAS from a Windows (or other) PC versus software installed right on the NAS itself? I'm trying to think of the pros and cons but not coming up with much other than resource utilization.
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