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Yesterday one of the leading cloud backup service providers, CrashPlan, announced it was ending support for its consumer level plans. CrashPlan for Home will be shut down as of October 23, 2018. Current CrashPlan for home users will receive an extra 60 days of backup service for free. No new signups or renewals are being processed.

CrashPlan still has a Business service and are suggesting home users move to Carbonite with a discount for the first year of service. It is a good time to review to see if going with one of those two options is the best way to go.

There are several other cloud backup services out there including Backblaze and Spider Oak. Each of them offers slightly different plans and you are best to take some time to decide which service is right for you. The important this is not to delay and when CrashPlan shuts down to not have an offsite copy of your data.

The 3-2-1 strategy talks about having a copy of your data offsite. To review

3 copies of your data.

2 different locations

1 of them offsite.

One other reminder when deciding what online cloud backup provider to use. Services like Dropbox, Onedrive and Google Drive are designed as file syncing services, not backup. I have gone into details on the differences in a previous blog post.

For myself, I’m looking to continuing my relationship with Backblaze. The service offers unlimited backup to one computer as well as file history for 30 days. I invite you to try the service out for 15 days free (you don’t even need a credit card to sign up) to see what it has to offer.  This also helps to support the podcast via an affiliate commission.

 

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