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Code42 Says Crashplan Backup Service Will Discontinue All Personal Backup Plans (crashplan.com)

Posted by msmash on from the can't-afford-anymore dept.

Reader amxcoder writes: Code42, the company behind the popular Crashplan online backup service has announced that will be discontinuing all of its personal and family backup plan offerings to focus on business backup service plans only. In the letter sent to existing personal plan customers, it says that next year will be the cutoff date for personal plans and all existing personal plan holders will have to upgrade their subscriptions to more expensive business plans or leave for another provider after current subscription runs out. Crashplan personal and family services were one of the best (and most affordable) options available for online backup, providing features that other rivals do not, including backup options for cloud, external local drives, and to other friends/family member's drives (trusted offsite). Looking at Carbonite services (who Code42 is recommending existing personal subscribers switch to), does not offer many of the options and features in their backup software, including multiple backup sets, unlimited deleted file retention, the trusted offsite options and any type of 'family subscription' offerings. Here is a statement from the Code42 CEO Joe Payne.

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  1. If you're a CrashPlan business subscriber by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might want to do some due diligence and see whether it makes sense to move your cloud backups elsewhere - or at least set up an account with a second backup provider. Businesses don't retrench for no reason - these guys may be in trouble.

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  2. Re:First I've Heard Of It by Kokuyo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Backblaze doesn't support Linux...

  3. Hey Crashplan!!! Carbonite does NOT support LINUX! by Danathar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks like Crashplan is going to screw Linux users as Carbonite does not support Linux as far as I can tell. I have 2TB of stuff backed up to Crashplan. That took me MONTHS to complete.

  4. Re:First I've Heard Of It by praxis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Backing up data costs time and money. Why back up data that's easily recreated? The operating system and installed software can easily be recreated. User data and settings are not. Those are higher-value targets for backing up. Different people draw the line in a different place.