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Which makes it a mirror rather than a proper backup.
by hrnnnnnn 11y ago
Which makes it a mirror rather than a proper backup.
- Grue3 11y agoCrashPlan has unlimited backup and never deletes files. And keeps all the old versions of the files. I don't know how they stay in business, given that somebody probably uses it to backup petabytes of constantly changing data. They have pretty slow upload/download speeds though so perhaps something like Amazon Glacier is involved. https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Restoring/Retaining_And_Downloading_Deleted_Files https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Restoring/Retaining_A...
- miahi 11y agoThe slow upload is also a way to limit the backup size. I currently back up >4TB on CrashPlan and it took a few months of 24/7 upload.
- leejoramo 11y agoI was going to point to the ability to seed large backups to CrashPlan's cloud, but it doesn't look like this is an option anymore. You can still seed to a private cloud of your own, friends and family, but not to CrashPlan's server.
- SyneRyder 11y agoI was just about to say that CrashPlan is restricted to the internal drive of a computer & is therefore limited to the maximum size of hard drives (e.g. 1-2 Terabytes for laptops), but apparently CrashPlan lets you backup external drives now too: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_External_Hard_Drives http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_Exte...
- leejoramo 11y agoHaving used CrashPlan's personal offerings for many years, I recall that they have always allowed the backup of attached storage either from hard drives or network mounts.