![]() If that block was already backed up, the CrashPlan app moves on and analyzes the next block.The CrashPlan app analyzes a small piece of the file (a block), and checks to see if that block was previously backed up. Thanks again to Adrian Johnson and the team at Code42 support for making this a really simple and effective exercise.How does CrashPlan for Small Business backup work?īackup begins with a process called data deduplication. I still won’t hesitate to recommend Backblaze to people, if it seems like a good fit for them, but I’m having a hard time arguing against a local presence and the somewhat parochial comfort that that provides. So, in short, I’ve been really happy with my CrashPlan experience thus far, and am looking forward to doing some more stuff with it. But that may have had nothing to do with it. As an aside, I often wonder what Mozy’s pricing would have been like if they hadn’t been bought by EMC. Whether they can sustain that pricing remains to be seen. Here’s a link to the Australian offering. And support have been helpful and informative every step of the way. Thirdly, CrashPlan pricing, for unlimited storage, is pretty competitive. Which, isn’t that big a deal, but it’s enough to make me pause. Secondly, the access to local support and a seed drive service is fricking awesome. So, on a $50 subscription, I pay, after fees and charges, $60. This may not seem like a big thing, as we’ve had parity with the US for a while, but recently the dollar has dipped to 85 cents. So, I’ll wrap up with some of what I thought were good things about the product. Firstly, I can pay in Australian dollars. In short, the NAS compatibility is cool (if you’re a QNAP owner – check this post out), as is the ability to send data to your friends. There are a few other things you can do with CrashPlan but I’ll look to cover those off in the next post. I took some photos, to make me look more like a tech journo.Īnd, then, magically, a little over 2 weeks after the drive arrived, I have 850GB of my data in the cloud. A pre-paid courier satchel to send it back in.The data is being de-duped, compressed and encrypted. Note also that this isn’t a straight file transfer. Also, like most backup products, lots of small files will choke the I/O, whereas big DV files go through at a healthy clip. I also found that by fiddling with some of the power saving settings on my Mac I was able to get the transfer speeds up to a more reasonable level. It is compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Dots OS (?). It seemed like that would just suck as a transfer mechanism, especially for large files.Īnd at that start of the process, it certainly looked like it was going to take some time.īut the key thing with this service is compatibility. Firstly, I was mildly panicked when I saw that the drive was formatted as FAT32. So, here are some pictures to fill in the space where I should be offering thoughts. Everything is pretty much there, barring a few new files from iPhoto and They contact me when seed data is uploaded at their end.I box up hard drive and send by pre-paid courier back to CrashPlan.I attach hard drive to computer and add it as a destination.Support contact me to confirm my details.Again, here’re the rough steps, but you can look it up for yourself: So, Adrian Johnson from Code42 offered me the use of a seeded backup drive, and I must say it’s been a really smooth experience. So gigabytes of home movies and other media were, beyond Time Machine backups, at risk. This was one of my complaints with Backblaze – I couldn’t get all of the data I wanted to up to the provider due to the extraordinarily shitty ADSL1 connection at my house. You can read more about how that works here. ![]() So, the killer feature that CrashPlan offers for me, and residents of the US, is seeded backup. Additionally, I hope you appreciate just how hard it is to take photos that look this bad. Just a reminder, every product is different, and every user’s circumstances are different, so don’t complain to me if you find that CrashPlan isn’t for you. ![]() So I thought I’d do a post to cover off on some initial thoughts and feelings and provide some public feedback on how it went. So, a short time after my post on Backblaze and Mozy and why I was going for the cheapest (but not necessarily nastiest) personal cloud backup solution, the Australian arm of CrashPlan got in touch and offered to help get me started with them.
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