PSA: CrashPlan for Home Discontinued

[Slovak]

Just got the email with the details that after October 22, 2018 CrashPlan for home will not be supported. More info at https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/

 

[SonicPet07]

Any viable alternatives for about half a dozen PCs and my beloved FreeNAS Box? The NAS is being replicated to a second one so I'm not terribly worried but I'd love an off site archive for all these machines.

 

[Slovak]

My secondary backup system is using SyncThing and then snapshots. I like it better, as if/when a file restore is needed I can see actual files on the FreeNAS rather than CrashPlan's way of retrieving the whole backup and using their app to restore.

 

[RoboKaren]

I'm in the same bucket as well. I've decided that my threat model is: 1) hard drive failure and 2) theft. So I'll use the money from my CrashPlan subscription and make a FreeNAS clone at my office that replicates the home server, and vice versa. Luckily, my workplace is understanding of my use of their network.

 

[Hazimil]

Bah, and I have only recently started a new subscription. Oh well, got a year to figure out my options.

Jonathan

 

[Hazimil]

This might be useful for finding alternatives:

https://www.cloudwards.net/comparison/

Jonathan

 

[zwf]

is urbackup could be consider as a good replacement for the client to FreeNAS part of crashplan ?
and then backup FreeNAS to cloud ....
I have all my PC/Mac/Linux client to my FreeNAS using crashplan..... which will be soon no available.

 

[Axemann]

<rant>

Blargh! My subscription ends in October, but I can't renew it. All of you that renewed before today, be thankful you have a year. With the "free" 2-month extension, I only have 4 months.

</rant>

 

[adrianwi]

Not great news, but I renewed mine a couple of months ago so have until May 2018 to make a decision. I only run CrashPlan from my FreeNAS box, so might have a look at the Small Business version. Looks the least painful in terms of migration (I am using about 4.1TB so below the 5TB) and 75% discount for the 1st year will make it cheaper than my current subscription. Beyond that, it will be twice as much, so might need something different at that point, but $120 for 4TB+ of cloud backup still isn't that bad a price I think?

 

[rwslippey]

<rant>

Blargh! My subscription ends in October, but I can't renew it. All of you that renewed before today, be thankful you have a year. With the "free" 2-month extension, I only have 4 months.

</rant>

I was curious about this too.. I've only got till november.

I'm going to read up on their business plan this weekend.

 

[Chuck Remes]

I'm planning to switch to their "small business" plan which will get me unlimited backup for $10 per computer. I *did* have 4 computers on the "family plan" before, so I'll just make sure 3 of those backup to my FN server and then backup that one to CP.

If only backblaze supported linux...

 

[Hi-Liter]

Has anyone tried ElephantDrive?

https://support.elephantdrive.com/h...27-Installing-ElephantDrive-Plugin-on-FreeNAS

 

[Andrew076]

I plan on switching to the "Small Business" plan. I may need to bite the bullet and setup a Linux virtual machine for this, if you see any guides out there for that I would appreciate it! Little nervous doing that because everything is working (was anyway) well...

 

[Mlovelace]

For an alternative, I backup all my PCs to freeNAS with Veeam Agent for windows/linux. Then, I push monthly fulls to google's cold storage with rclone (installed in a freebsd jail on the freeNAS box). Veeam Agent and rclone are free so you only have to pay for the cold storage, which, is quite cheap for offsite DR.

 

[zwf]

For an alternative, I backup all my PCs to freeNAS with Veeam Agent for windows/linux. Then, I push monthly fulls to google's cold storage with rclone (installed in a freebsd jail on the freeNAS box). Veeam Agent and rclone are free so you only have to pay for the cold storage, which, is quite cheap for offsite DR.

Interesting, but since i have Mac (veeam do not seems to support mac) to backup as well here what i am planing :

1. Urbackup server on the freenas
2. Urbackup client on all my desktop
3. and backup freenas to a cloud storage (many option here)

• CrashPlan since it is already installed and running fine
• something like rclone to backup to G cold storage or Onedrive
• something else

Note:

1. Urbackup seems promising but at this point i am ready to test something else as well (must support Win/linux/mac and not require constant human action something like crashplan)
2. I will have to test rclone a bit deeper (assuming working with cron , and want to see what kind of report i can get)

 

[TooMuchData]

How about Bacula? Anyone using it instead of Crashplan?

 

[guglez]

I had minor issues with urbackup and linux desktops. Which options do we have right now? Where to migrate? Backblase b2b cloud looks fine since there are a lot of compatible backup tools. idrive looks fine as well. Any other suggestions?

 

[guglez]

How about Bacula? Anyone using it instead of Crashplan?

Bacula is a different tool and it has steep learning curve.

 

[Soloam]

Never crossed my mind that I was going to have this dilema in a near future! Big disappointment to crashplan! So what are the linux Or freebsd alternatives?

 

[danb35]

There's some discussion here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...n-for-home”-closure-my-research-so-far.57243/
and here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/seeking-crashplan-replacement.57226/
and a little bit here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/crashplan-leaving-the-home-consumer-marketplace.57218/