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EDITOR NOTES
CrashPlan is now free for personal use; CrashPlan+ is $59.99 and adds real-time backups and more. CrashPlan Pro for businesses starts at $350 for 5 computers.
DESCRIPTION
CrashPlan is the ultimate backup solution for your home or business and now supports Local Backup!
Files are automatically compressed, encrypted, and transmitted to your designated backup destinations. Easily back up your laptop to a desktop, your office server offsite, or a remote employee's laptop to HQ.
Use your own backup destinations to avoid subscription fees, enjoy greater security, and recover from data loss much faster. Don't have a destination? Buy a yearly subscription to our built-in destination, CrashPlan Central.
CrashPlan runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 11.05.2009:
- Unable to login to CrashPlan Desktop via password
Some users were unable to login to CrashPlan Desktop if they had secured it with their account password. Fixed.
- Authentication issue
In some cases CrashPlan wouldn't properly authenticate itself with our authentication service. Fixed.
- Improved default file exclusions
We improved the default set of file patterns to ignore, specific to each operating system.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, 1GB of RAM
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| CrashPlan User Reviews (20 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 6 2009 |
ORYTEK It may be free for personal use but that just means you can use the software to back up to local drives or a friends remote drive. If you expect to be able to use Crashplan's offsite server's, forget it. That is only for paying customers. Media is cheap and I am not willing to rent disk space in minnesota. I'll stick with Time Machine, SuperDuper, and the free 12 gigs of offsite space offered by iDrive. If I'm wrong I will humbly change my opinion and review but if right, I sure feel like there's some deceptive implications offering free personal use with only the need to tolerate advertisements.
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 | Nov 6 2009 |
ZX Installer Failed!...Again.
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| Oct 22 2009 |
HOMER1 I've been trying out on-line backup programs for months now. Dropbox looked promising but the issues are many, and security (read encryption!) does not exist. Tried CrashPlan based on the very favorable review in MacWorld and I'll tell you it's perfect. Not only does the program perform, I've had questions that I emailed the support contact about, and received an email response back within 24 hours in all three cases (and I'm not even a "paid" user yet). I'll be signing up tonight and I recommend that anyone looking for an easy, Mac like, secure on-line backup program give CrashPlan a serious look.
(Version 10.19.2009) | |
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| Oct 22 2009 |
DESKER My experience has been the exact opposite. I, too, was enticed into trying CrashPlan by the reviews. I have used a couple of other backups, but I thought, since the opinions about CrashPlan were so glowing that I'd give it a shot. The software was at least easy to understand and use (as opposed to SpiderOak). So two days ago I started uploading all my photo files in the hope of getting them all up there before my free month ran out. Then I planned to sign up for a year to give it a full test. But, today my connection was dropped four separate time for up to two hours at a stretch, something I've never had happen with either JungleDisk or SpiderOak (which seems to get a terrifically bad press, probably because its software is so confusing to use. At the moment I can't connect in any way and the notation beside CrashPlan Central says "destination unavailable." My last connection was 2.4 hours ago. And I'd love to know how you get in touch with anyone at CrashPlan support without having paid for a year in advance. Perhaps I'm just not seeing it but I can't find any way to get in touch with them to tell them that I'd love to use their service, but I can't.
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| Oct 22 2009 |
DESKER Just to modify what I said previously, I have sent an e-mail to CrashPlan support (I just wasn't looking carefully enough) and I'm waiting for a reply. I'm still hoping everything works out.
(Version 10.19.2009) | |
| Oct 23 2009 |
DESKER I have now heard back from CrashPlan and the response was quick (within a couple of hours). So that's good and a major point in the company's favor and makes me optimistic. They say my troubles probably are on my end, likely a firewall acting up. This has not been the case with my other two backup providers, but you never know. If my problems now cease (in fact I had a spontaneous reconnection without doing anything) and things stay stable over the next few days I will be happy to return to give CrashPlan a glowing five star review and sign on for actual dollars with them. | |
| Aug 8 2009 |
STELLAE LUMINAE I am a Mac user since 24 years, nowadays using Crashplan+ on a Macbook with OS X 10.5 to backup to a 100 GB account at their data center "Crashplan central" and to a Window Vista PC downstairs: Works very well with minimal impact on computer performance/usage. It's a real set and forget business and test restores have worked out elegantly and flawlessly. The main thing on my wishlist would be to have a possibility for different backup sets to different locations, e.g. to backup everything to local computers and a reduced set for the cloud. -Nevertheless, the developers are to be congratulated for top-notch and mature software!!
(Version 07.27.2009) | |
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| Jul 28 2009 |
DJC0 Started looking for an online backup solution over a year ago. Competing products never really worked smoothly and i always seemed to have trouble. CrashPlan, on the other hand, worked perfectly from the first install. Their customer service has consistently been both prompt and helpful whenever i've had a question or feature request. This is a great program/service that i *highly* recommend.
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| Jul 27 2009 |
SHERMAN WILCOX Been using CrashPlan for a couple of years now. This is INCREDIBLY good stuff. It just works. Buy it!
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| Jul 16 2009 |
SCOTT_E_COLLINS Been using this for a while now, and very happy with it. Easy to use and does the job well. Have not tested the remote storage feature yet (only used USB harddisks so far) but that seems a valuable addition. Recommended!
(Version 06.11.2009) | |
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| Feb 14 2009 |
MARUKO DRINKING TEAM Greaat... I just installed this to try out again, because my existing backup tool isn't behaving well. But to use this, you have to log into your CrashPlan online account. I have my account details and try to log in, but CrashPlan hangs at the "Please wait..." screen, forever. So, what's the deal, I can't back up when your server is down, or whatever? Lame, and back into the Trash it goes. (Wish it worked, though; sounds nice if it did.)
(Version 01.06.2009) | |
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| Oct 10 2008 |
ACKSHIEL This is a GREAT update to an already great tool! You can now backup to a USB drive.
(Version 10.09.2008) | |
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| Apr 23 2008 |
ARIZONASOONER Great solution for office environments. We use CrashPlan for our disaster recover strategy. We are a graphic design studio that is backing up about 400GB worth of data offsite to a Mac Mini with 1TB drive hooked up to it. The initial backup takes some time, but you can circumvent most of that by doing your first backup over your local LAN and then move your setup offsite. We also use Retrospect to create daily backups locally, but will abandon that when CrashPlan implements that feature. Cudos to Code 42 and their hard work and great product support. My only suggestion, would be to create a user forum linked to their site to minimize questions with solutions that have already been answered and to promote creativity with the product.
(Version 03.04.2008) | |
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