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How many 'homes' have 10 computers? I admit that I haven't looked at CrashPlan's pricing since two or three years ago when I dumped Carbonite after experiencing a number of glacially slow restores (of relatively small amounts of data), but for my three systems (rather more typical for a home setup), I think that the Home pricing was then something like half that of the Pro contract I selected, and the latter included additional features that I thought worth the extra price.
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You must be single or have a small family.
Either that or you need to turn in your "nerd card".  A family of 5 could easily approach the 10 computer mark, if you consider each person having a laptop or desktop, and add in the fact that NAS appliances are now popular, as well as other possible computers like HTPC's being used for TV viewing/streaming.
Even if you don't have 10pc's to backup, if you have more than 1 or 2, then plans that charge "per pc" get expensive quick. Paying per PC on Crashplan's new SMB plan would cost me 4X more than it currently does, and each new PC I added would get more expensive, instead of now, where I wouldn't sweat it if I had to add another computer to the mix as I have left over slots from the 10 avail in my plan.
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I have a good sized family, but our children are scattered over two continents, with only my wife and I left at (our current) home. We find a desktop each and a single shared laptop for portable use to be enough hardware. I do have a NAS setup, but this is used as an alternate backup destination for the working systems- I don't expect to have to back it up!
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Actually the home plan for 10 PC's was $150, not $200. So it's an 800% increase, not 600%... which is even worse. Still your point is valid just the same.
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I use BackBlaze and they are cheap, fast and just plain work. Backs up my Windows and Mac machines and is only $5 per month per computer. Can't beat it.
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justahack wrote: I use BackBlaze and they are cheap, fast and just plain work. Backs up my Windows and Mac machines and is only $5 per month per computer. Can't beat it.
CrashPlan did beat it, though. For $150/year I'm backing up 5 computers (I think the Home plan was 10 max?) with unlimited storage and unlimited file versions -- it's that last bit that was the real winner, and the only reason I put up with their otherwise horrible software and speeds.
I'm hoping to do more comparisons in the next few days and will post with what I find.
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Depends on the use case, for sure. BackBlaze costs me $50 per year (if I pay up front) instead of $5 per month. I've only got 2 computers to back up, so in my case, that's cheaper. And the speeds and software are amazing.
I can't speak to versioning but I have had to go back and restore files that I screwed up or deleted and am able to select by date backed up. So, probably not versioning perse but good enough for my needs.
Not sure if BB offers any sort of discount for more computers that are backed up... perhaps there is. I do know they offer other solutions if you have a NAS to back up.
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BackBlaze is the first thing I thought of when I got the email, I was evaluating it before I choose CrashPlan in the first place. Unfortunately despite the pricing being the same, BB doesn't actually support backing up ANY of my data due to limitations they put in their software, and the software is pretty horrific if you want to back up anything specific anyway.
The main downsides are no real versioning; it uses an exclude setup to choose what to backup instead of a much simpler include (for example It's not actually possible to only have a single folder backed up with BB); it only runs on MacOS and Windows Client versions; no support for Windows Server or Linux, and it won't backup any data on a network share; which means unless all your data is local you can't backup a nas.
I doubt I'm the only one who put up with CrashPlan's generally crappy software just due to the features and ease of use.
Ironically, IF you have less than 5TB of data backed up, which includes your actual backups plus all versions, and you don't have multiple machines, upgrading to the newly renamed Small Business package is probably still the best option out there. If however you backup multiple machine and/or have more than 5TB of data, switching to the new plans means you're going to be paying far more and they're going to delete all your backups anyway... I dunno...
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Backblaze is a really good alternative.
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I use iDrive because their software allows network shares as well as external hard drives and NAS. When I started online backup 2 years ago, they were the only ones I found that did.
They have a free plan, but their 2TB plan is only $55/mo for 1 user unlimited computers and $75/mo for 5TB
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After looking around, iDrive seems to be the next best thing for an affordable price. The only downside is they don't offer a home plan more than 5TB, so if your backups are bigger than this, it either won't work, or you may have to pay for multiple's and have sets of computers use different account to keep them all under 5TB.
Backblaze does not support many of the Crashplan features, and they also charge for a file restore, so they get you comming and going so to speak.
I don't think I'd every pay for Carbonite, just personally, but they seem to be a half hearted, sleazy company. Maybe it's just the image I get from their radio and TV commercials, but they seem like they try to gouge people who don't know any better. Their "tiers" of service are strange as well, as they only give some basic functionality unless you pay even more for each PC. They don't even backup video files by default, apparently home video's of your family aren't considered "important" to backup.
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You are right about the size, but luckily I have less than a terabyte currently and don't plan on passing 4TB for at least a couple years.
As a plus with a decent internet connection (20Mb/s UP is what I have) the upload speed to their server was quite acceptable.
Plus the whole network drive thing. I run a couple home servers so all our home computers/devices save data to the servers and I just back them up to idrive, so my kids have a much harder time destroying my data 
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The server/NAS backup is important to me as well. It's also nice to have the same software that does offsite backup do the local backup as well (which many of them don't offer that feature). That is how I currently use Crashplan as well. I have all PC's backup to the NAS, as well as individually to Online Backup (currently Crashplan for another year). Then the NAS also backs up to the online account as well, so I have local backups (mirror raid), as well as online/offsite backups and the NAS backed up (minus the backup folder for local backups).
I iDrive is one of the few that also does file versioning as well (like Crashplan) which has saved my but a few times for individual file restores. And it's affordable for multiple computers compared to Backblaze, Carbonite and the like who all charge separately per PC. When you have a family of 5, plus NAS central storage, paying per PC can get expensive.
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I thought I'd give Carbonite a try once. Slow as watching grass grow. In retrospect I don't know why I even bothered (just bored I guess), I know better. I have never felt good about the idea of keeping my content in the cloud. I prefer local storage. I use cloud as backup for a handful of things that I want to synchronize between different machines but that aside, no thanks.
If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur! - Red Adair
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Cute; I'm looking forward to their first contact with the creators of the CIA hacking tools, as disclosed in Vault 7 from Wikileaks.
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I can't wait for that. I love a good circular reference
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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That's like throwing my neighbor's dog's turds back over the fence. Nice idea, not very effective.
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You have to wait until the neighbor is sunbathing nude on a chaise lounge. THAT would get the point across.
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Those are really (or should I say O'Reilly) excellent titles !
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I wrote "Trying Stuff Until it Works" but I've never received any royalties from O'Rly.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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But, but, but, but that's how I work everyday! Are you suggesting there is a better way? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm sooooo stealing these.
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