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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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I have been really happy with SOSOnline as my could backup. That is until last week when they sent me an email and told me that they were no longer going to honor their unlimited plan and I had till my subscription runs out to change my plan or they delete me. They are out of here so time for a new choice

https://www.backblaze.com

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https://www.crashplan.com

These seem to offer what I need. Unlimited storage and ability to backup from multiple external drives without additional costs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these companies? Any other choices I might want to look at?
 
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RocketCowboy

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I've been a happy CrashPlan user since 2012. I use the family unlimited plan, and have near 18 computers and 7.5TB of data backed up in my account.

I do have a dedicated Mac Mini at home with a large external drive that I use as a second backup destination with Crashplan, so that everything gets backed up both to my local Mac Mini as well as the Crashplan cloud. I do that more for speed if/when I do need to restore, but when I'm on the road everything comes down from the cloud. I've tested it enough times with retrieving files from offline computers while on the road, never had a problem.

As we start building out the sales off here at work, I'm intending to put the office on a business plan as well.
 
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PapaST

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I've been with Crashplan since about 2014 and I'm very happy with them. I remember when I was looking, Crashplan, Backblaze and a third company (sorry the name escapes me) were in the running. I went with the third company but cancelled them fairly quickly due to their constraints (I think it was iDrive or maybe cloud.com???)

I think Crashplan and Backblaze are pretty similar so you could probably flip a coin on those two. I would shop around for good intro deals. I got about 50% off the first year with Crashplan on the family plan to save a little initially. Also keep in mind if you run a NAS then Crashplan (not sure on Backblaze) can be a little tricky. You can either try to run a plugin to backup to Crashplan from your NAS or you can do what I did and map a drive from an Apple computer or Linux (Ubuntu) computer and backup the NAS from there. The point I'm trying to make is Crashplan doesn't backup mapped drives from Windows devices.

Overall I've been very pleased with Crashplan. I use my phone app to access documents in the cloud all the time. I wouldn't mind if they freshened the apps up a bit but that's just me. Good luck.
 
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I have been looking at backblaze myself so will be interested to hear which direction you choose.
 
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RocketCowboy

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Don Kuykendall said:
After theses comments and the reviews I read online I think crashplan will be the one I go with
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If you can hold out, it seems like they usually do a black friday discount which is what got me in initially in 2012. I'm a year and a half into my current renewal, so I don't remember exactly what I paid at the last special, but it seems like it was compelling.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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I have until February so I can wait to see if they do anything for Black Friday. I just like to overlap for a few weeks while everything is backed up to the new service


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Rgrenaderphotography

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Dropbox, Dropbox, Dropbox. For me there has never been a more robust and viable cloud service. I relocated my Lightroom catlog to the Dropbox folder, and now all my images are backed up to the cloud. As an added benefit, my entire body of work is available on all my various platforms.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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Rgrenaderphotography said:
Dropbox, Dropbox, Dropbox. For me there has never been a more robust and viable cloud service. I relocated my Lightroom catlog to the Dropbox folder, and now all my images are backed up to the cloud. As an added benefit, my entire body of work is available on all my various platforms.
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If you just put your Lightroom Catalog in DropBox then your photos are not there. Lightroom does not store your photos. It is just a database that points to your photos in your hard drive.

Also you have to upload the photos each time you you load another one in your computer. I have 2.5 GB of files that I am uploading now. 75% of that is photos. Dropbox will not hold that many files.
 
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Beanbagfrags

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Don Kuykendall said:
If you just put your Lightroom Catalog in DropBox then your photos are not there. Lightroom does not store your photos. It is just a database that points to your photos in your hard drive.

Also you have to upload the photos each time you you load another one in your computer. I have 2.5 GB of files that I am uploading now. 75% of that is photos. Dropbox will not hold that many files.
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Dropbox will hold 1TB.


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