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I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless.

Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.

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As both a happy Crashplan user and a happy Everpix user, I don't think it's fair to compare the two directly. For me, Everpix is not primarily a backup service -- I shoot in RAW too, I also shoot movies, and for now Everpix doesn't help me with that. I use Everpix because I want to take my photo library on the go, so I can share photos with people or look at them myself, but my library is far too big (100 GB) to keep on my phone or my laptop, so Everpix allows me to take that library with me, and also allows me to easily process my photos too. The fact that it gives me a secondary backup (albeit only of my processed jpgs) is just a bonus.

Since I've been using Everpix, I've looked at, re-discovered and shared more photos in the last two months than I have in the last year or more before that. It's really been a joy to use. It's been like rediscovering my photo library all over again.

As for finding pictures in non-default locations, all I can say is that I've never had an issue with that and Everpix has worked seamlessly for me. I'm a very happy customer.

Sadly, I can't say the same for Crashplan. I like their service and their price point and am more than happy to keep using them, but their software hasn't been updated in a year (non-Retina, and not very mac-like) but far more importantly their de-duplication doesn't seem to work for me. When I wanted to move my photos folder to an external drive, it re-uploaded the whole 100 GB. I don't know if that's because of the security options I use or not, but I definitely have dedup enabled. If there was a solution, I couldn't find it. Clunky to say the least.

I think Everpix should be both a backup and sharing system, but I don't find it useful for either (since it won't find my actual main photo library but does cheerfully upload random stuff it finds elsewhere (um, sorry Everpix, but not everything in "Pictures" is a photo).

Crashplan ain't pretty, but that's not my top priority in a backup system.

+1 for CrashPlan. Have been using it for a couple years now, and have only had good experiences with it. (OSX)

Plus, you can configure it not just to back up to CrashPlan's servers, but to also back up to a NAS or similar -- so you've got your local backup in case of HD failure (obviously much quicker to restore from), but also got CrashPlan's backup in case of fire, etc.

These extra features make CrashPlan such a killer app otherwise I would have ditched them long ago for BackBlaze which has a native Mac app and their (BackBlaze's) interface is like at least 13X* times better than CrashPlan.

*note: a random number out of frustration. They have one(native app) in works since 2-3 years it seems.

Unreal. I never thought about that (since photos are on a NAS) even though I use and swear by Crashplan. Such a simple practice. Thank you.

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