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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.
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.
Im in the same boat. And I can't answer for the OP but for me, I don't want to run a PC constantly just so the backup software will connect to my NAS and push. My NAS currently just sits there in the background and uplaods to Crashplan. My daughters all have shared drived on their laptop that backup to the NAS and I know it gets pushed near real time whether I have my PC on or not.
People like us are really between the rock and a hard place. Because the cost does seem wuite a jump for us home users and I'm not convinced Crashplan Pro/Business will continue to work on my NAS.
I'm still looking but it's not looking good.
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