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[Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?



On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:18:17AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote:
> As of next summer, there won't be any more low-cost CrashPlan backup service
> for us Linux users. I liked the fact that its backup engine supports both the
> CrashPlan cloud service and private backups between servers.
> 
> There are some others, like the ones reviewed here, but nothing ideal:
>   https://www.cloudwards.net/best-online-backup-for-linux/
> 
> I always use two separate services (at the moment, CrashPlan plus a homebrew
> set of scripts based on rsnapshot) because one's bound to fail.  What's your
> strategy? And what will fill the CrashPlan void?
> 

For people who don't need fancy interfaces and hand-holding, 
rsync.net is probably a good choice.

Simple pricing:
http://rsync.net/pricing.html

Technically competent:
http://www.rsync.net/products/platform.html#zfs

-dsr-



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