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September 20, 2008
Crash Plan
On and off over the past year or so I've been looking for an off-site backup solution. I had looked into Mozy, but gave up on it when I discovered they didn't support backing up remove drives in the windows client (a feature they seem to have removed in the Mac client as well). I briefly looked at JungleDisk before stumbling on CrashPlan, a peer-to-peer solution that doesn't scale in cost with the amount of data to be backed up.
After evaluating it for a month, I decided to buy licenses for both Dawnises Mac and my Linux machine, and bought a 500GB drive to park at a friends house as my backup target. They have instructions on moving backup sets on their web site, which let me seed the backup to the drive on my LAN before handing it off, and so far so good.
It's missing a few features I'd like, but knowing that there's an off-site copy of my email, music and digital photos is a good feeling. I'm using TimeMachine on Dawnise's mac (targeting the NAS) for the "oops, I deleted a file I shouldn't have" sort of backup, and rdiff-backup on my linux box for the same, but neither of them is a great story should the physical plant here at the house suffer an "event."
If you don't have a backup strategy, check out CrashPlan.
Posted by dberger at September 20, 2008 4:18 PM