Comments on: Life after Crashplan

By: Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:24:01 +0000

My setup:
* Ubuntu 16.04 server headless with samba
* Crashplan for small business installed on server, backing up to cloud and local drive
* For each Win10 client use Windows 10 File History to backup to each users samba area on the server. I don’t have any Linux clients.

To configure CrashPlan on a Virtualbox Ubuntu client in Win10:
* ssh -X server xterm
** Run “/usr/local/crashplan/bin/CrashPlanDesktop” in xterm

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Backups – au revoir Urbackup, bon jour syncthing! | Al4 — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:32:51 +0000

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By: Alex Forbes

Alex Forbes — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:14:33 +0000

In reply to Paul Farquhar.

Hi Paul,

Technically I still intend to use it…. but the server side broke when I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet. As far as restore goes, I haven’t used it to restore a client and to be honest I’m not sure I would. The main thing for me is be being able to recover things I forgot to backup or save in an appropriate place.

Overall, I’m not particularly satisfied with it, and would prefer something more “Crashplan-like” in approach. I regard OS configuration as ephemeral, in that I’d rather reproduce it from scripts or source than save the state, if that makes sense. The important thing for me is the data.

By: Paul Farquhar

Paul Farquhar — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:45:45 +0000

thanks for the post – As my WHS is failing I am looking at UrBackup to backup severeal Win10 clients to a Linux server on the same network.
May I ask you some questions?
Are you still using UrBackup? Have you sucessfuly done a restore of a Win10 client?

By: Antonio Delgado

Antonio Delgado — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:47:10 +0000

In reply to Alex Forbes.

Hi Alex, no prob… I have discarded iDrive after reading terrifying customer reviews at this site: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.idrive.com between bad performance, getting charged in your credit card even if you have cancelled your account, or customers that have been paying for 5 years, getting their account (and backups) deleted.

By: Alex Forbes

Alex Forbes — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:27:10 +0000

In reply to Antonio Delgado. Hi Antonio, sorry for the slow approval there. Haven't heard of iDrive, hopefully it works out for you!

By: Antonio Delgado

Antonio Delgado — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:47:50 +0000

Thank you very much for the excellent analysis and summary… I am going through the same process as my subscription expires in like 2-3 weeks. I am also dissapointed about losing the peer to peer feature, which was really nice to have to backup devices to my Synology NAS.

After some research, my best looking option seems to be iDrive, as it also has an app for Synology.