![]() (A) The financial consequences of using Crashplan for this period have been significant. Having used and troubleshot Crashplan extensively for the last 18 months I have one word for anyone considering signing up: DON’T. I’m simply passing on the results and opinions from my own experimentations to help you guys make an informed decision. I make no $ if you decide to try it too, and they haven’t paid me to do this. So far, I’m very impressed, and please note that I am not an affiliate for CrashPlan in any way. It seems like a real bargain to me!Ĭurrently the CrashPlan helper app is telling me that my initial upload will be completed in about 5 days, and I’ll keep you guys updated on how it goes. All my important files on my computer are also synced to Google Drive, so I was never worried about losing important documents, but this solution adds another layer of protection, and frankly I hadn’t appreciated quite how cheap these solutions were. For only $59.99 a year, it’s worth doing just so that I don’t have to think about other solutions too much. Currently my offsite backup is only a mirror of my photo archive, so there was definitely a small gap in my backup solution that can be filled by CrashPlan. If there was a fire or theft, I might lose my Time Machine as well. In my office I have Time Machine running to make backups of my computer files, but these are only locally stored. The price difference between the two is negligible. ![]() It’s a much simpler service to set up, but if you’re like me and you like to really dig into settings and optimize things, you’ll appreciate what CrashPlan has to offer. If you are just a hobbyist photographer, it’s very probable that Backblaze will be a better option for you. For now, I’ve also set it to exclude my 12TB of photos in the main archive, because I’m not yet sure if I’ll use something like this for offsite photo protection. ![]() I set it to only run the backup uploads between 1am and 8am for example, so I know it won’t get in the way of any of the work I might be doing.
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