Crashplan

[wheels]

I was playing with Amazon Glacier and came across Crashplan - and noticed the option to allow friends/family to backup to your system for free. Would be useful for some of my family with small backup needs. Anyone using Crashplan?

Just initially it has some strange delays when connecting between two machines both on my desk right now.

[markdesign]

Yup, I use crashplan. It is great. Better price then glaciar, since you have unlimited storage.

I had a linux file server in my closet and crashplan is the only service that runs on linux!

Currently I have a synology NAS, and I'm running the crashplan client on my mac. So far it works good.

The only downside is, it takes a while for the initial upload. I started with 1TB and it took a month.

[Kageryu]

I use Crashplan as well. (We use the enterprise version at work.) I believe it's free to download and try, so it's definitely worth it.

IIRC the current version requires Java, next big rewrite is supposed to do away with that, at least on the Mac.

Their cloud backup is also a nice option to consider, especially the family plan. I've done a few "huh, I think I had that file on that old computer that's been offline for a year, let's check Crashplan" convenience restores, and have completely saved the *** of a family member whose PC literally faceplanted and killed the HD. (Really, Dell? No sudden motion sensor?)

[LAmike]

I've been using Crashplan for a long time. It works great. I believe it is still free if you just want to backup to local drives and friend's machines who are also running Crashplan; what you don't get with the free version is the scheduling (only 1 backup per day) and the Crashplan Central (offsite) service.

Here's a layered backup strategy:
-backup to a connected external drive
-backup to another machine over your LAN
-backup to an offsite location

[the86d]

I don't trust MY data on someone else's machines (cloud).

I may be paranoid, but if the company gets bought then your data is theirs, but might be parsed through by the company that holds it now, even if it is against their TOS, they could be hacked. Everybody's eggs in one basket...