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CrashPlan vs Handy Backup

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When comparing CrashPlan vs Handy Backup, the Slant community recommends CrashPlan for most people. In the question“What are the best backup programs for Windows?” CrashPlan is ranked 3rd while Handy Backup is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose CrashPlan is:

You set it up once and from then it runs in the background whenever you are not using your computers (or at specified times).

Specs

ContinuousYes

DifferentialYes

IncrementalYes

Only When IdleYes

PlatformsWindows; Linux; OSX; Android; iOS

Unattended schedulerYes

VersioningYes

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Pros

Pro
Unintrusive

You set it up once and from then it runs in the background whenever you are not using your computers (or at specified times).

Pro
Supports multiple backup destinations

You can set up different files/folders to back up to specific places.

Pro
Differential and incremental file backup

CrashPlan updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.

Pro
Unlimited online storage

The $5/mo individual plan and the $12.50/mo family plan gets you unlimited cloud storage.

Pro
Allows custom encryption keys

Custom 448 bit user-provided encryption key can be used to encrypt the backed up data in the cloud.

Pro
Users can order a physical copy of their data

They will send you an external hard drive to your house.

Pro
Unlimited revision history

CrashPlan saves all previous versions of a file.

Pro
Backup for ODBC Databases

The Professional edition is capable to backup and restore database tables with the help of ODBC drivers

Pro
Backup to all popular clouds

The Professional edition is capable to save copies of data to all popular clouds such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive and OneDrive.

Pro
System backup and recovery

The Professional edition can save an image of any drive as a VHD file. Users can restore this image later, or attach this VHD file as a virtual drive and browse its content, or even run it as a complete image of a VirtualBox machine.