[ale] CrashPlan Home, cancelled

[DJ-Pfulio]

Not perfect, but costs are well understood and the data never leaves
your control ...

* Get a couple HDDs and a USB3 dock for backups.
* Swap just the disks between home and work every week.
* Use the one at home for daily, versioned, automatic, backups to the
encrypted file system on it.
* The one at work is your off-site backup from last week. Encrypted.

8TB disks have been $160 this month, but 500G disks are probably more
than enough for most "critical data" in a home.  500G was enough for
over 10 systems here.  Just deal with large media stuff separately.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
going 70 mph on an interstate."  I know it is much greater than my
Comcast links.

On 08/24/2017 01:34 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
> BackBlaze is not being subtle about their willingness to take on all the
> people flocking away from CrashPlan, but that doesn't help us.  I think
> BackBlaze doesn't have a native client for Linux, though.  That being
> said, some people were suggesting standing up a Windows VM/Host to
> collect backups from all your devices and then push up to BackBlaze. 
> That comes with some extra overhead on your own part for restores, but
> it does have the added benefit of backing up your whole network while
> only having to pay backblaze for a single machine.
> 
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crashplan-alternative-backup-solution/
>