I’ve just about finished implementing that solution, so I’m posting what I’ve done here on the off chance that it might be useful to others. CrashPlan’s more expensive Small Business price is not reasonable, because both the cloud storage options and the free software available for using them have improved dramatically in the past five years.Īfter looking at what’s available now, I settled on storing my backups in Backblaze B2 and using Rclone to put the data there. I switched to CrashPlan a year later because the price they were charging was more than reasonable for the sake of avoiding all of the time and energy necessary to maintain my hacky, home-grown solution.

My solution was gross and complicated and required lots of manual hand-holding and scrounging around looking for cloud services that I could stick backup archives into. There are a lot of new goodies there that aren’t here, so mosey on over and check it out.īefore using CrashPlan, I implemented my own backup solution, which I documented in an earlier blog posting entitled Free Linux cloud backups for cheap bastards. Why are you still reading this? As I said above, this blog posting is obsolete. Alas, their Home product is being discontinued, and people who want to keep using CrashPlan will need to pay 2-3 times as much to switch to their Small Business service. I’ve been using CrashPlan for Home for about five years. There are a lot of new goodies there that aren’t here, so mosey on over and check it out.

Backblaze rclone