Automatic BackupĬrashPlan runs in the background so it is always backing up even when I’m not aware that it’s doing so. That said, the following are additional reasons why I maintained my subscription with the CrashPlan for Small Business plan. I personally have a library of nearly 5 terabytes of mostly photos as well as business-critical data like emails, documents, text files, scripts, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. This is especially the case when you have priceless photos or important data files that you don’t want to lose. Whether the computer’s internal hard drive crashes or one or more of your external hard drives crash, being able to recover the data files that otherwise would be corrupted or lost is necessary for piece of mind.

Trying to restore a file using CrashPlan for Small Business I opted to stay with CrashPlan for Small Business solution so I could continue having my backup routine while also having my already-uploaded files available for restoration should it be necessary. This was because Code42 was repositioning themselves as more of a cyber security data protection company.ĭuring that time, existing users were given a choice to go with a competitor (like BackBlaze, Carbonite, etc.) or migrate to the CrashPlan for Small Business service at $10 per month after a gradual transition period from having to pay around $5 per month. Then, around 2017-2018, the parent company of CrashPlan, Code42, eventually ditched the Home User solution in favor of either small business or enterprise solutions, which followed the traditional backup solution paradigm. For a small fee, Home Users could also go with the traditional solution of having files backed up to their cloud of servers.

Status of my CrashPlan backups from the online consoleĬrashPlan initially offered an innovative free backup solution where Home Users could back up files on other subscribers’ hard drives.

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