Comments on: CrashPlan – the best backup service yet? http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/ A country datasmith. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3954 gobansaor Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:04:05 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3954 Hi Jim, The thing that differentiates CrashPlan is its ease of use (e.g. it's ability to handle firewalls and easy versioning, if that's a word!). Any sort of backup i.e. getting the data off your laptop/pc is 100% better than no backup which is unfortunately the norm amongst most home users (and a very large minority of small business users). I was a Mozy user but when Amazon S3 appeared I switched and initally rolled my own backup software (being a techie and all) but I now use JungleDisk (http://jungledisk.com/) which I would recommend. Amazon S3 now offers European storage "buckets" (which I think are Irish based but are certainly EU based) for a small extra cost. I don't much need a local backup store of my data (and when I do I use USB sticks) as I'm now nearly exclusively "cloud based" but I know family members and friends who are big into music and digital photography/video and whose local stores run to 100s of Gigabytes (try loading that up to (or recovering from) an online service in rural Ireland), for them a local backup solution is currently their optimal option until we reach South Korean bandwidth levels. Tom Hi Jim,

The thing that differentiates CrashPlan is its ease of use (e.g. it’s ability to handle firewalls and easy versioning, if that’s a word!). Any sort of backup i.e. getting the data off your laptop/pc is 100% better than no backup which is unfortunately the norm amongst most home users (and a very large minority of small business users).

I was a Mozy user but when Amazon S3 appeared I switched and initally rolled my own backup software (being a techie and all) but I now use JungleDisk (http://jungledisk.com/) which I would recommend.

Amazon S3 now offers European storage “buckets” (which I think are Irish based but are certainly EU based) for a small extra cost.

I don’t much need a local backup store of my data (and when I do I use USB sticks) as I’m now nearly exclusively “cloud based” but I know family members and friends who are big into music and digital photography/video and whose local stores run to 100s of Gigabytes (try loading that up to (or recovering from) an online service in rural Ireland), for them a local backup solution is currently their optimal option until we reach South Korean bandwidth levels.

Tom

]]> By: Jim Folan http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3953 Jim Folan Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:35:07 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3953 I just went on to crash plans site. It would appear is that they are offering software only. You have to provide and take responsibility for the infrastructuse yourself. This type of softwsare is available freely anyway. I dont see any real benefit to this. The expensive part of online backup is the infrastructure, management and insurance. I would therefore see mozy as a far more beneficial service. Also had a look at backupanytime.com as mentioned in one of the posts above. Nice site! I guess their pricing is like all other Irish online backup companies, off the radar. If not, sorry, I did try to look for pricing but couldnt find. Why is it that backing up in Ireland is still so expensive? I dont like backing up in the US and as a home user cant afford Irish online backup. I had a look in the UK and it doesn't seem to be a whole lot better. Can anyone tell me why it is so cheap in America which has a similar general cost base to UK and Ireland. Dont flame me on this. I know graet value can be found in the US generally but my point is that it is a first world economy with a well paid labour force.... I just went on to crash plans site. It would appear is that they are offering software only. You have to provide and take responsibility for the infrastructuse yourself. This type of softwsare is available freely anyway. I dont see any real benefit to this. The expensive part of online backup is the infrastructure, management and insurance. I would therefore see mozy as a far more beneficial service.
Also had a look at backupanytime.com as mentioned in one of the posts above. Nice site! I guess their pricing is like all other Irish online backup companies, off the radar. If not, sorry, I did try to look for pricing but couldnt find. Why is it that backing up in Ireland is still so expensive? I dont like backing up in the US and as a home user cant afford Irish online backup. I had a look in the UK and it doesn’t seem to be a whole lot better. Can anyone tell me why it is so cheap in America which has a similar general cost base to UK and Ireland. Dont flame me on this. I know graet value can be found in the US generally but my point is that it is a first world economy with a well paid labour force….

]]> By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3926 gobansaor Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:47:54 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3926 Yes, and many traditional in-house corporate backup solutions are now starting to offer online options. The difference with CrashPlan is it's consumer/vSMB focused and its cheap up-front pricing. Tom Yes, and many traditional in-house corporate backup solutions are now starting to offer online options. The difference with CrashPlan is it’s consumer/vSMB focused and its cheap up-front pricing.

Tom

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3925 Kevin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:49:06 +0000 http://blog.gobansaor.com/2007/11/05/crashplan-the-best-backup-service-yet/#comment-3925 Most online backup companies now offer local backup as standard in addition to online backup. We at www.backupanytime.com provide in addition, an encrypted local store. Given that this local store is encrypted, it will not be changed by the user and will be updated and reindexed per backup. The purpose is to allow restore if broadband is down or too slow to allow a complete restore in an acceptable time frame. Foe more details see http://www.backupanytime.com Kevin Most online backup companies now offer local backup as standard in addition to online backup. We at http://www.backupanytime.com provide in addition, an encrypted local store. Given that this local store is encrypted, it will not be changed by the user and will be updated and reindexed per backup. The purpose is to allow restore if broadband is down or too slow to allow a complete restore in an acceptable time frame. Foe more details see http://www.backupanytime.com

Kevin

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