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From: Burt Johnson on 18 Jun 2010 02:52
YES. CRASHPLAN is the absolute best one out there. I don't know why
they don't get more press.

You supply a disk at a friend's house and back up to that. Much faster
than any cloud backup (I get 10 GB per day on CP and only about 1 GB per
day on Mozy when I was using it). Much cheaper (as in Free -- you only
pay for the disk you put remotely).

You can also seed the backup locally, then move it remote. I have 1.4
TB from my computer and 800 GB from my wife's computer backed up to a
Drobo stashed as my sister-in-law's house 50 miles away. I seeded the
backup here (took about 2 days for that much), then took the disk to her
house and told CrashPlan to connect that disk backup to my home system.

Works like a charm.

In fact, I updated to Adobe Lightroom 3 this past weekend, which
resulted in 600 GB of changed files on my system. Rather than wait 2
months to be fully backed up again, I retrieved the disk, and am doing a
local update as I type this. I will then return the disk to the
in-law's house and be back in business.

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Mozy has been dead for more than 2 weeks so I am cancelling my account.
> > Any suggestions for a good offsite replacement?
>
> CrashPlan <http://www.crashplan.com> is excellent. It will backup to
> local HD, remote HD (across LAN or the internet even), and paid online
> storage - all without noticeably impacting my user experience (unlike
> Time Machine which brings my iMac to it's knees every damn time it
> runs).


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- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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