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Add to SafariWhen comparing CrashPlan vs AOMEI Backupper, the Slant community recommends CrashPlan for most people. In the question“What are the best backup programs for Windows?” CrashPlan is ranked 3rd while AOMEI Backupper is ranked 4th. 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
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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 User Friendly
Pro Supports multiple backup methods
In addition to full backup the program supports differential and incremental backup. And merging of incremental backups can be done via the command line.
Pro Easily clone a drive
Cloning a drive can be done without making a separate system image and allows the user to create partitions on the second drive in order to limit what space is used for the clone.
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 No way to manually pause a backup
The backup process can be canceled or it can automatically pause if it encounters an issue (like the destination not having enough space for the backup), but there's no way to pause the process manually.
Con Feeling uncomfortable that it's not going to restore when really needed
Con Open image requires mounting virtual drive
Con Custom size only for pro users
You cannot set custom size for backup files on free version.
