![]() That way, I'll have another snapshot older than the one on the Drobo, just in case. I'm going to power that thing up once a month, do a full backup, and power down. I'm going to add another tier, which is an unused older server I have parked in a back closet. We now store a few terabytes of data on CrashPlan (probably a lot more since they have all those historical snapshots), and the recovery was essentially painless.Įven though this experience worked out well, one of my two backup tiers failed. ![]() Worse, there were gaps in the data I'd tried to recover.īy contrast, everything came back in perfect, original condition using CrashPlan.Ībout a month ago, I'd paid for another year of CrashPlan's service and this experience definitely showed how worthwhile that expense was. Then, once I did a restore for an earlier crash, and I found that Mozy didn't properly back everything up. First, it would take literally hours to generate a list of what was stored on Mozy's servers, before even attempting to do a restore. ( UPDATE: See Mozy's invited response, at the end of this article)īut there were two key reasons I dumped Mozy and moved to CrashPlan. To be fair to Mozy, I haven't used their service since I started with CrashPlan, and they may have improved things. I want to compare that with my last experience of Mozy. Five minutes later, I had them downloaded to my machine and another five minutes after that, they were on my network share, back where they belonged. So I logged into the CrashPlan application, set the recovery date to August 23, looked for the folder, and voila! All 657 files were there, safe, sound, and snug. I found that it had kept daily snapshots going back 90 days, weekly snapshots going back a year, and monthly snapshots going back about the 30 months or so since I started using the service. But you'd be wrong, and this is how CrashPlan saved our bacon.ĬrashPlan keeps snapshots, for which you can set the granularity. Now, you might think that if the files were deleted from our network share a week ago, they'd also be missing off the CrashPlan servers.
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