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OK, third product. I will warn you now though. I haven't finished a good review of the product yet, only been able to review the local LAN backups and such. Once I get a friend to be a guinea pig for me I will update this with my results there.
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CrashPlan is a product that allows you to do on-site and off-site backups to location you trust. The problem some people have with many online backup services is they can't walk over to that company's data center and say "That's my backup". CrashPlan tries to fix this by allowing you to backup your data to a friend's computer at their house. This also helps with getting your data back faster in the case of an emergency so you don't have to wait for your internet connection to download stuff. This also solves the problem with privacy because any data sent to a backup is scrambled and encrypted before it leaves your computer so your best friend can't paruse any pr0n you're backing up nor look at your bank information. :)
In turn, you can become a backup buddy for your friend. He can backup his stuff to your computer. Sounds like a great system to me. My local network backups to/from some of my PCs and Macs have worked fine. I haven't yet been able to test backups to a real off-site location but if it works like FolderShare it should be a snap.
You can try the software fully featured free for 30 Days and after that you must buy the software. It's a one time license of $20 per PC you are backing up FROM. It would cost your backup friend NOTHING to keep accepting your backups. It would only cost them $20 if they want to backup also.
Check the site, watch the tour and see what you think. Sounds good and with backing up to friends you don't have to worry about size limitations and cost per month. You only have to be concerned with how much space you're taking up on your friends hard drive :)
Oh, I almost forgot to mention. You can back up to as many friends as you can talk into installing the software. Redundancy!
I will update this post once I can test out this friend stuff and get some results.
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OK, third product. I will warn you now though. I haven't finished a good review of the product yet, only been able to review the local LAN backups and such. Once I get a friend to be a guinea pig for me I will update this with my results there.
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CrashPlan is a product that allows you to do on-site and off-site backups to location you trust. The problem some people have with many online backup services is they can't walk over to that company's data center and say "That's my backup". CrashPlan tries to fix this by allowing you to backup your data to a friend's computer at their house. This also helps with getting your data back faster in the case of an emergency so you don't have to wait for your internet connection to download stuff. This also solves the problem with privacy because any data sent to a backup is scrambled and encrypted before it leaves your computer so your best friend can't paruse any pr0n you're backing up nor look at your bank information. :)
In turn, you can become a backup buddy for your friend. He can backup his stuff to your computer. Sounds like a great system to me. My local network backups to/from some of my PCs and Macs have worked fine. I haven't yet been able to test backups to a real off-site location but if it works like FolderShare it should be a snap.
You can try the software fully featured free for 30 Days and after that you must buy the software. It's a one time license of $20 per PC you are backing up FROM. It would cost your backup friend NOTHING to keep accepting your backups. It would only cost them $20 if they want to backup also.
Check the site, watch the tour and see what you think. Sounds good and with backing up to friends you don't have to worry about size limitations and cost per month. You only have to be concerned with how much space you're taking up on your friends hard drive :)
Oh, I almost forgot to mention. You can back up to as many friends as you can talk into installing the software. Redundancy!
I will update this post once I can test out this friend stuff and get some results.
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