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Really disappointed in CrashPlan. Giving the customers 3 months before the backups are worthless is not cool!

Ragewind 9y ago
In the email I have received they state that their service continues until October 22nd in 2018, so that's more than one year left. I'm on a free account, so it has got nothing to do with a running subscription.
- ValentineC 9y ago
  > I'm on a free account, so it has got nothing to do with a running subscription. This sounds like something that was mostly missed by the comments here — does that mean that people who only utilised their peer-to-peer backup system need to find another solution too, because their software needs to phone home to work? Relying on user accounts and "backup codes" [1] stored on CrashPlan's servers sounds like a scary additional point of failure. Well, one more thing to add to my list of criteria for backup software: that it'll keep running, for the most part, without having to log into an account somewhere. [1] https://support.crashplan.com/Backup/Backing_Up_To_A_Friends_Computer https://support.crashplan.com/Backup/Backing_Up_To_A_Friends...
  - Ragewind 9y ago
    You are right, for home usage I'm completely relying on the peer-to-peer backup system to have some kind of "distributed" backup where every machine is backed up to another machine and to an external drive. If I wanted I could even add an offsite location as well. In combination with file watching and storage of multiple versions per file this makes a pretty unique feature set which makes it hard for me to find a replacement. They stated a few times that the free version will also only work until that deadline. I assume the client is not going to work anymore after that. I'd prefer they released an offline (home network) version which I would gladly pay for.
- ValentineC 9y ago
  @Ragewind: by the way, your reply to me was flagged, and you might want to check if you were shadowbanned by accident.

In the email I have received they state that their service continues until October 22nd in 2018, so that's more than one year left. I'm on a free account, so it has got nothing to do with a running subscription.

ValentineC 9y ago
> I'm on a free account, so it has got nothing to do with a running subscription. This sounds like something that was mostly missed by the comments here — does that mean that people who only utilised their peer-to-peer backup system need to find another solution too, because their software needs to phone home to work? Relying on user accounts and "backup codes" [1] stored on CrashPlan's servers sounds like a scary additional point of failure. Well, one more thing to add to my list of criteria for backup software: that it'll keep running, for the most part, without having to log into an account somewhere. [1] https://support.crashplan.com/Backup/Backing_Up_To_A_Friends_Computer https://support.crashplan.com/Backup/Backing_Up_To_A_Friends...
- Ragewind 9y ago
  You are right, for home usage I'm completely relying on the peer-to-peer backup system to have some kind of "distributed" backup where every machine is backed up to another machine and to an external drive. If I wanted I could even add an offsite location as well. In combination with file watching and storage of multiple versions per file this makes a pretty unique feature set which makes it hard for me to find a replacement. They stated a few times that the free version will also only work until that deadline. I assume the client is not going to work anymore after that. I'd prefer they released an offline (home network) version which I would gladly pay for.
ValentineC 9y ago
@Ragewind: by the way, your reply to me was flagged, and you might want to check if you were shadowbanned by accident.