The fact that CrashPlan was essentially "always on" and doing frequent backups without ever having to think about it was fantastic. Additionally, the ability to do point-in-time restores came in handy on several occasions. Because I'm generally the IT person for the family, I loved that the user interface was so easy to use that family members could recover their data without my help. Recently CrashPlan announced that it was dropping its consumer subscriptions to focus on its enterprise customers. Encryption in case the backup files fall into the wrong hands.Replicated data store for backup sets, so data exists in more than one place (i.e., not just backing up to a local USB drive).Point-in-time recovery (or something close) so if you accidentally delete a file but don't notice until later, it's still recoverable.Īutomation (so there's no need to remember to click "backup").Cross-platform support for Linux and Mac.I decided that the features I would need in a suitable replacement included: It makes sense, I suppose, as it wasn't making a lot of money off folks like me, and our family plan was using a whole lot of storage on its system. I searched around and asked my friends about services similar to CrashPlan. One was really happy with Arq, but no Linux support meant it was no good for me. Carbonite is similar to CrashPlan but would be expensive, because I have multiple machines to back up.
Backblaze offers unlimited backups at a good price (US$ 5/month), but its backup client doesn't support Linux.
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