Crashplan or Backblaze
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- Hue
I have been using external hard drives, but recently had one fail on me, and with computer problems too I think it is time to get online backup. I am UK based, with 2 macs and a hard drive to back up, and have been reading reviews about both Crashplan and Backblaze. Anyone recommend the best to sign up for?
- SunSunSun0
Check out Zovo. Really happy with them!
- ernexbcn0
I have CrashPlan, so far no problems.
- Hue0
Anybody else have any suggestions? I'm still not sure where to sign up to.
- gimmejimmy0
- Looks good. AWS is the way to go. I've been using Jungledisksublocked
- ETM0
I use Carbonite at the moment, but I think I am going to change to CrashPlan. Carbonite's bandwidth throttling isn't working for me. Whether backing up large portions or downloading/restoring, it's SLOW.
- fyoucher10
I use BackBlaze. I forget it's even there sometimes, until midnight and I'm wondering why my wifi internet connection is shitty. As far as I can tell, it works perfectly. But I haven't had anything fail on me yet.
- mikotondria30
I have the $10 Mozy plan, and had a drive die on me last month.
What's not always clear is that if the drive dies, then the backup client 'sees' that you 'don't want to back up I:/ anymore', and silently triggers a countdown to erasing those I: files on its server after 30 days..
I let the 30 days pass, unknowingly and was staggered to find that my remote I: was no longer there ! I shit a brick, but thanks to the support I was able to get it back.
Up until then I didn't have one complaint about Mozy, and honestly the person helping me was a real star, for $10 month I'm very happy. The archiving client on my machine was never a problem, stuff got uploaded and the restorable files downloaded fine too, when I wanted them. Just my 2c. I've not used any other backup/mirror/archive service, so I can't say.- < Carbonite does something similar with the 30 days limitation. Another reason I want to leave.ETM
- I don't mind so much now I know, but it was never made really clear. I'm all rescued now, and the staff were great, so..mikotondria3
- formed0
Carbonite here, no problems yet (but haven't needed to restore anything). I had Mozy before, but they started to charge for space (I estimated my cost at a thousand or so per year, or more).
- zaq0
Amazon Glacier
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- Nathan_Adams0
I have absolutely no complaints about Backblaze.
- evilpeacock0
Between the two, Backblaze by a mile. Everyone I know who has Crashplan complains about slowness.
- Kidneon0
I have backblaze and couldn't be happier. I forget it's there half the time. Although I'm on PC and in the USA so I can't say how it acts in the UK.
- Hue0
Generally it seems that Backblaze might be the way to go then, thanks for all your input
- formed0
I have friends who didn't use Carbonite because it estimated it would take 4 months (or something ridiculous) to upload.
I have about 4 TB backed up and have never noticed it at all, it just runs in the background (Mozy did this too just fine). I am guessing that all of the services will be 99% the same.