Crashplan changing their business model

I'm seeing that Crashplan is leaving the "home" backup market and concentrating on small business. I'm currently with Crashplan and if I stayed with them during the transition then my fees would be about $70/month. That's more than I want to spend so I'm going to check if there are any other alternatives. My account is good till mid-2018 so I have time. Hopefully some other providers will offer better pricing.

I think I'm paying about $100-120 a year for unlimited cloud backup for all my devices. Hopefully I'll be able to find something similar.

I know some of you guys use Crashplan so I'm interested to see what everyone else is doing.

PapaST said:

I'm seeing that Crashplan is leaving the "home" backup market and concentrating on small business. I'm currently with Crashplan and if I stayed with them during the transition then my fees would be about $70/month. That's more than I want to spend so I'm going to check if there are any other alternatives. My account is good till mid-2018 so I have time. Hopefully some other providers will offer better pricing.

I think I'm paying about $100-120 a year for unlimited cloud backup for all my devices. Hopefully I'll be able to find something similar.

I know some of you guys use Crashplan so I'm interested to see what everyone else is doing.

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How many devices do you have? I got the same email today and the small business model is only $10 and month BUT if you transfer over now your first year is 75% off which is only like $30 for that first year which is half of what you are paying now. Go back and reread the letter and look on the website. The new fee does no take over until your present plan expires.

I have seven devices now. But it's listing my iPads and iPhone (maybe just because they have the app on it). So I could conceivably get that number down to 4 devices. With the special plan it would be cheaper than what I'm paying now but the promotion it would balloon to $480.00 a year.

I have time, so I'm going to look around. I wish someone like Azure or Google Cloud would get into the market. At a glance, I think those two solutions are still a little pricier. If my math is close then it's around $15-$20/TB/month.

I think the market will adjust to accommodate poor schmucks like me.

I'm in the same boat, and frankly kind of pissed off with how this was announced, after a few emails over the past weeks trying to convince me to "upgrade" my home subscription to a small business subscription. Now I'm hearing on Twitter that not only are they killing the home package, but even the local backups using the home app will also stop once the subscription ends. This was one of the methods I used before decommissioning an old laptop after upgrading but before selling ... so now any of the data I was hoping to keep on my home storage will also be killed (effectively)??

I'll likely end up with Carbonite or BackBlaze, or see if I can't piece something together with Amazon S3 since I currently have my website backups going there. My account is still good until April, but it may take that long to get my backups moved over.

One thing I notice when having a lot of local or cloud storage, everything gets saved and that is almost never needed. When I do an event shoot and take 1000 frames fore example, not that many are every going to be used or even fully developed. We tend to save way too many files that just are not worth saving. About once every 6 months I open a number of directories and start pruning, again, and find the ones deleted are never missed because they are not good enough to stand out or to show clients. I store some on Dropbox because I like the shared folder functions where I just give a link to a client or friend whose photos I want them to see or download. It is about $10/month. My GF saves her data, photos and letters on it also so she has access to them on her phone, laptop or any computer she is on at the time. I tried auto backup with another service and it was not as flexible, but did save everything, which I did not need, most does not need to be saved and knowing how many agencies have backdoors to all cloud services or phone networks, there is no need to have all that out in public domain(public when any of those with access unknown to you, want to release it). I am not so sure it is a good thing to have all details of life broadcast to agencies who have access to your data. They do scan it regularly.