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arqbackup.com will do windows and mac; you pay for your own S3/gc data usage. It allows you to (1) black/white list; (2) encrypt client side; (3) use s3/gcp/your own nas; (4) schedule on demand.

I guess the reason for CrashPlan bailing on the home market wasn't just people trying to store 20T of movies, but also just the support needs. The economics of providing end-user support on $60/year plans is horrific. Note that all Crashplan really did was increase cheapest plan from $6 to $10/mo...

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Under the old plan you could pay $10 for 2-10 devices, whereas now it is $10 per device, so the price change is a bit more than you suggested.

x0x0 not quite. $6 to $10 a month would be acceptable to me, but its now $10 a month per device, where before it was $6 a month for a "family" of up to 10 devices. That's the real cost increase problem. I'm still only one customer, with almost no support burden, but the price to go to office version is substantially different for multiple machines.

oh wow, that is a big price increase

$6/mo for a family's worth of devices is ludicrously cheap

Exactly. The short list for my family was: me, my wife, my mother, father, sister, and mother-in-law. 6 users under one plan, also using each other's computers as targets, because the connection speed at my parents' is atrocious. So now, instead of 6$ total, which I could just sweep under a rug and call it a day, I'd have to pay 10x that - or bother getting money from them, because none of them want to bother managing their own backups. Hell, my parent's couldn't even been bothered to stick an USB HDD every once in a while.

This seriously sucks, especially that I now have to find a new solution, deploy it remotely on multiple PCs, and they'll all have to suck it up for another couple of weeks if not months when everything reuploads to the new solution.

As for me - even if I migrate to new solution, I'd still effectively loose the versioning. This is a serious bummer!

arqbackup ($50/computer) will probably do roughly what you want. If you remote mount the drives between the computers they will look like a nas that it can write to.

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