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Backup company doesn't allow backup files or VMs for their official "business tier" plans? Someone didn't think this through. I'd ditch the service immediately
by arthurcolle 7y ago
Backup company doesn't allow backup files or VMs for their official "business tier" plans?
Someone didn't think this through. I'd ditch the service immediately if I used it personally. There are so many decent backup options nowadays.
- gridlockd 7y agoIt's the "small business" tier which they migrated some of their users to, after shutting down the "consumer" version of Crashplan. I'm pretty sure they ran the numbers and figured that a small number of jokers backing up images of live VMs were using up an enormous amount of disk space. That's likely thousands of dollars of cost for a couple of dollars in revenue per month. I can see how they need to get rid of these people. Having said that, not notifying their customers beforehand is beyond negligent.
- shimfish 7y agoFWIW, I got an email from them months ago warning about this. After a decade of using CrashPlan, I'm on the verge of jumping ship. Just thought I'd check and apparently it has silently been failing to backup for nearly two days. Also, I can't access the restore function at the moment.