![]() I decided to open another ticket with Crashplan and asked again what else to do and I got a less than ideal answer back from them, a snippet is below…ĬrashPlan normally backs up at a speed of 1-3 mbps or 10-30 GB a day. I was still somewhat happy with Crashplan and all of my data was backed up there I decided to upgrade to their Small Business plan.Īt this point I was getting pretty frustrated. To add insult to injury throughout this back and forth with support Crashplan announced they were discontinuing their home backup serviceĪnd you needed to upgrade to their Pro or Small Business version or move to Carbonite with a discount. I tried that again I was only getting best case 3.6Mbps upload speed to Crashplan on a 1Gbps link… This time they reccomended tuning some of the parameters around how much CPU Crashplan can use. Initially I thought it worked but it didn’t… I opened another ticket with them and they gave me a couple more blog Crashplan reccomended that I try to tune the Java JVM and give it more memory to help upload those large files. I am uploading photos averaging around 20MB/piece from my DSLR to 4GB video files that come from the security cameras. ![]() On how to optimize my backups and allow larger files to be uploaded. I contacted Crashplan’s support and they responded pretty quick and I was quite impressed initially. As of this writing the backup time is now up to 10 days… However, at the new place I was running 5 camera’s and Crashplan was not able to keep up. At my old place I was only runningĢ cameras so Crashplan was able to keep up. I have security cameras (nanny cam’s) at my place and they record motion to a local Windows server I have. However, when I moved to my new residence I got AT&T Fiber which offers a full 1Gbps down and 1Gbps up speed. Crashplan was usually close to consuming the full speed of the link with other things sharing This worked out great until I moved recently… At my old residence I had Time Warner Cable Internet (now Spectrum), my connection About 4 months ago I started backing up my Macbook Pro with Time Machine.Ĭrashplan was too slow with upload speeds so I decided that if I needed something quickly restored I have it locally. I could even restoreĭeleted files that were deleted months ago. I was in love with how simple it was use and when theĭay came that I needed to restore something I could go in their application, search for the file, and restore it. My backup strategyįor about the last year I have been backing up all of my computers to Crashplan. On your precious home videos and photos… The different backup medium’s also range in complexity in terms of ease of use and setup. Mediums range in price from free all the way up to several hundred dollars a year. There are multiple methods for backing up your data, they range from a thumb drive to remote backup. Their data after its too late and they have lost that precious photo of their baby being born. Most people do not think about backups or want to take the time to set one up or spend the money.īoy is that a mistake… Most people (myself included) are in that boat and they realize they need to backup
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