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Add to SafariWhen comparing CrashPlan vs CloudBerry Backup, the Slant community recommends CrashPlan for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services for Linux?” CrashPlan is ranked 3rd while CloudBerry Backup is ranked 6th. 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).
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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 Supports cloud backups to other vendors
Supports a range of cloud storage vendors like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud.
Pro Simple Interface
Quite easy to set up a backup plan with their GUI.
Pro DEB installer file for Ubuntu
Cons
Con Buggy
Con Home edition discontinued
CrashPlan's home edition will be shut down on October 23, 2018. They are no longer accepting new signups or subscription renewals.
Con Popular features (local backup and trusted offsite backup) no longer available
Con Heavy client
The BackupClient is based on Java and therefore a lot more memory-intensive than most other backup solutions
Con Buggy
Con Buggy
Upon backing up, it stops at an unknown file multiple times.
Con Slow
Backs up my computer at unusual speeds.
Con Just a frontend for other services
