Review of CrashPlan for computer backups
Posted Nov 23, 2011 in software
I’ve been using the CrashPlan automatic backup system for my home computing devices for almost a year now, and I offer up this review.
Prior to using CrashPlan, I have to admit that my backup strategy for home computers left much to be desired. Over the years I had tried various combinations of home-grown scripts and syncing tools that broke too easily or didn’t offer enough flexibility in recovery, crusty third-party software that seemed to take hours to configure and then never quite did what I expected or didn’t work with all the different devices I used, and even elegant tools like Apple’s Time Machine backup system that still didn’t offer me the off-site redundancy I wanted in case of physical catastrophe.
The end result was that my backups were happening infrequently, and in ways that did not necessarily guarantee the ability to restore what I would need in the event of a system failure or worse. For someone who preaches the importance of backups to my friends, family and clients all day long, this was an embarrassing state of affairs. Then, one day a friend’s laptop was stolen from his house, and as I listened to the stories of what was lost because of an incomplete backup and imagined what I would possibly lose if the same happened to me, I knew I needed to look for a better system.
That’s when I found CrashPlan.






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