In a statement to its existing CrashPlan for Home subscribers the company says the following:
Options for Moving from CrashPlan for Home
This is going to be a pain if you’ve been using CrashPlan as part of your data backup strategy for years. You do have various options, though. Here is a look at the pros and cons of each one. We will honor your existing CrashPlan for Home subscription, keeping your data safe, as always. To allow you time to transition to a new backup solution, we’ve extended your subscription (at no cost to you) by 60 days. We are committed to providing you with the easiest and most efficient transition possible. Backblaze. While Code42 is pointing its users to Carbonite, there are plenty of other services on the market to consider. Out of the popular, trusted cloud-based backup services, Backblaze is the most affordable compared to other services. Unlimited backup for Mac or PC starts at just $5/month. Or, you can save 10 bucks by purchasing a full year for $50 and save $25 by purchasing a two-year subscription for $95. Plus, Backblaze doesn’t charge extra to back up an external USB drive as Carbonite does. Backblaze offers a 15-day free trial and no credit card is required. Backblaze offers mobile apps for iPhone and Android, too.
Just because it’s more affordable doesn’t mean it skimps on features or security. Backblaze boasts that it stores over 350 Petabytes of data, has restored over 20 billion files, and has customers in over 120 countries around the world. It keeps your data secure with what the company calls “Invisible Encryption”. Files are encrypted before they leave your computer, transferred over a secure SSL connection to the Backblaze data center, and your data is stored on an encrypted disk. It also provides two-factor authentication which adds an extra layer of security when you sign in to access your data.
ElephandDrive
ElephantDrive provides ordinary people with the type of robust backup, storage, and data management that has historically only been available to big corporations. Secure data backup with easy access – available on all of your devices. The platform supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Mobile (iOS & Android), and even Network Attached Storage (NAS). The service includes plans for both Home, Business, and the Enterprise — starting at $10, $20, or $30 for the first 1,000 GB (depending on which plan you choose). We’ll be taking a deeper dive into each of these cloud-based backup services over the coming weeks. But this should give you an idea of what to look for and figure out what will work best for your situation. Right now, we are leaning toward Backblaze as our recommended service. To get a general idea of how Backblaze works, read our article: Backblaze is a Straightforward Online Backup Solution. That article was written a few years back, but I will take a fresh look at where the service is now, so expect an updated article about it, and other backup solutions soon. thanks Dr Paul Hendley The only problem is they don’t seem to be able to complete the migration from Home to SB and support aren’t answering tickets, which is very disappointing. The only way to use CP for SB on a PC is to register the PC. Once registered, you will eventually be paying $10 / month for it. It doesn’t matter if you back up to a local folder and not the cloud, you still pay the monthly fee for each registered PC. If you have several PCs / laptops on the Family Plan and choose to migrate them all, you will be charged (eventually, once the discount expires) $10 / month each. There’s a concern with security when restoring the encrypted data they store – as I understand it, they decrypt it to their restore servers using your key – so although you can enable 2-factor authentication to access your account, still means that your key is sent to them, and your unencrypted data comes back… If you’re really worried about your data security, you could use something like TrueCrypt to keep your data encrypted your local drives. The other, minor, issue I’ve found is that on changing to a new PC or reinstalling Windows, you have to transfer to (or ‘inherit’) the BackBlaze configuration & data from the old system, which isn’t always as smooth as it could be. “Connect this computer to the CrashPlan Central destination soon. If it remains inactive, its data will be removed according to our backup retention policy” Huh? my computer is at home 6,000 miles away. I cannot imagine a backup service that would willfully delete backups I got home to find CrashPlan are dropping home support altogether so no big surprise. We use SpiderOak at work and I’ve never had a problem with it and they have never threatened to delete my backups so I intend to use that at home going forward. Comment Name * Email *
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