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You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost.

For backblaze it's even less time.

"You need to keep them connected periodically otherwise if you lose it without reconnecting... lost. For backblaze it's even less time."

No way. What ?

You're saying that if I dutifully pay my $X/mo for unlimited backup space, but fail to connect, or perform an update, the remote data is removed ?

What ?

Yeap, most if not the overwhelming majority of backup services work like that. Some like Mozy have as low as a 30 day counter. [1]

[1] At least they had that 30 days limit a few years ago, I haven't used them in a while.

Well, I know one that doesn't work like that :)

I believe for CrashPlan, this ONLY applies to CLOUD backups. If you backup to local media or across computers, there is no "auto-delete" timeframe.

Hello Everyone,

Wanted to jump in here to confirm.

This policy only affects devices that have not connected to CrashPlan Central in 6 months or longer. This does not affect volumes that have not connected to the device in that period of time. (i.e. an external hard drive that has not connected in 6 months.) Additionally, there is no minimum connection time for local CrashPlan backups.

It’s important for CrashPlan users to consistently connect their device(s). Part of CrashPlan’s ability to maintain the archive health and integrity relies upon regular connection from the device. CrashPlan is able to routinely perform maintenance on the archive by comparing checksums between both device and CrashPlan Central.

https://support.code42.com/Administrator/3/Monitoring_And_Ma...

Please let me know if I can provide additional clarity.

Best regards,

Jarrod

Is this also the case for crashplan business or PROe? (ceejay in europe).

Since the infrastructure for CrashPlan's backup engine is the same between our Business/Consumer clients, we recommend that all users routinely connect their devices to the backup destinations. That being said, this policy only affects CrashPlan for Home subscribers at this time.

Yea I think so, it's only for them to keep you from storing everything up there forever when it could just be stale data.

I think it's fair if these are supposed to be daily backups to do this esp with cloud data and having to provide "unlimited" space to everyone using the product.

Don't know whether I'm grand-fathered into a different terms but I've just pulled some files from a back-up on a machine that was last active 5.4 years ago.

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