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>I used Crashplan now.

Do you pay for their business plan?

They killed their consumer plans a while back and told me to go to Carbonite. I was a bit bummed by that as I liked CrashPlan's client.

I went to Backblaze instead, not a fan of their backup client though.

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They may not be marketing towards consumers anymore, but they will happily sell a $10/mo single PC license like before. I've been using them at home for sometime.

Yeah, that's okay, but I have a lot of small family devices that need backup, but not a lot of backups. I don't want to pay $10/mo to backup my mom's desktop and the 15GB of data in her user profile. Crashplan had a family plan that handled that use case.

I ended up switching to iDrive, which has a 5TB limit, but which also allows for unlimited clients within that 5TB.

Yeah but if you have a family that gets out of hand fast.

I switched to SpiderOak - it's not good and/or doesn't work and/or is very slow. Now switching again to Duplicacy which is just a backup app and you choose your storage option(s). I really enjoy the control that you have over its behavior.

I have to see which works best for Apple anyway. I think Backblaze is best for that.

Backblaze personal backup used to only keep files for 30 days from your last activity, although I see they now let you keep old files for a year, for an extra $2/month.

Personally, I use Arq Backup and Backblaze B2 (their “real” cloud storage). Arq is a one-time paid app that does differential encrypted backups to your choice of local storage or cloud provider.

Keeping 1TB of backups cost me around $5 per month, and the files won’t disappear on me if my computer stops working for a month.

https://www.arqbackup.com/

If anyone looking to try it but wants something open source for a client, have a look at http://restic.net. Been using it to backup V MO to B2 for over a year now.

Also, Arq is “one time buy” just for one version apparently.

I've discovered Restic while playing with Golang, looks pretty neat. Have you had any issues with stability or corruption of your data? what are you using for encryption (if any?) thanks in advance.

Restic backs up my NAS to B2 without issue. I don't have a file set that changes much though, but it includes backup verification via `restic check`

Sounds good, I will def give it a go! (no pun intended) :)

That seems much cheaper than S3. I assume even Glacier isn’t that much cheaper per month and a pain to pay to take files out.

BackBlaze by far - I moved from CrashPlan when they screwed their consumer offering.

BackBlaze has a stable client (even though it lives in system extensions) that uses fewer resources, as opposed to the buggy POS that is CrashPlan. IIRC CP client is Java, BB is native.

BackBlaze's restore is far more robust (I got timeouts trying to restore large files from CP) and more intuitive.

Currently I neither use Backblaze or CrashPlan but restore was one of the few features (among other features like CP’s excellent versioning) where CP beat BB hands down. Heck, the last time I checked BB didn’t even let you restore using the client. You had to download the files from the portal and then put it somewhere yourself. I am not sure it has changed now. While CP’s was so seamless that it would just restore your files in the background wherever you wanted - at their original location or elsewhere. It worked so well.

Yes, BB Java app was (is?) indeed a POS.

You can try ARQ with Backblaze b2.

Uhhh remind me to check up on my Crashplan backup. (FACEPALM)

You might want to look at tarsnap then.

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