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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CrashPlan

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ACrashPlan® provides secure, scalable, and straightforward endpoint data backup, to help organizations recover from any worst-case scenario, whether it is a disaster, simple human error, a stolen laptop, ransomware, or an as-of-yet-undiscovered calamity.

    $8

    per month per user

    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AVeeam Data Cloud supports Azure resilience, combining SaaS-based backup with built-in immutability and automated management. Purpose-built for cloud workloads, it unifies organizations' data protection strategy into a solution that simplifies recovery, secures critical data against threats, and keeps costs clear and predictable. One platform, full coverage: Policy-automated protection that's purpose-built for Azure and unified with other apps, services and data. Resilient by…

    $42

    Pricing
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure
    42 per TB
    BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
    VUL Portable licensing
    Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Considered Both Products
    CrashPlan
    Chose CrashPlan
    Both of the entries I put need a dedicated VM or physical server to be utilized. VEEAM can be installed as a VM or on a physical server, but Unitrends has a dedicated server needed as a purchased product in order to get the backups running. CrashPlan is a simple install on any …
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    Veeam Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of CrashPlan and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    CrashPlan
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.01 Ratings9.038 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.01 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of CrashPlan and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    CrashPlan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    9.0
    22 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Continuous data protection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    SaaS Backup
    Comparison of SaaS Backup features of CrashPlan and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    CrashPlan
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    8.3
    32 Ratings
    3% below category average
    SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings7.027 Ratings
    Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
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    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Small Businesses
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Backupify
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Spanning Backup
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (84 ratings)
    8.0
    (39 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CrashPlan
    Individuals (SOHO), families and SMBs, who have a tight budget for offsite critical company data backup are well suited to this product. Especially if you want your data to be hosted locally (Australia in our case). Larger companies, with higher requirements and budgets would be better served elsewhere. Especially when you consider the poor technical support. Although, to be fair, their poor support may just be issues with their Pro/SMB products, as opposed to their enterprise products. However, if that is the case it's a pretty poor show/indicator still.
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    Veeam Software
    For our purposes I can't particularly find any shortcomings of Veeam Backup for Azure. It has been working well for our needs for a few years now. Maybe for someone with a larger cloud footprint or more complex needs, or maybe someone who wants to be able to deploy and configure the appliance using infrastructure as code it may not be as practical.
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    Pros
    CrashPlan
    • Code42 is the most affordable backup system offering unlimited storage that I could find. I came from SOS Online Backup, which I ultimately decided to drop after my monthly rate for their unlimited plan increased by 20x.
    • With Code42's unlimited storage option, I don't have to worry about the fact that my backups are significant in space. As a photographer with thousands of images at stake, I need to run large backups often.
    • Code42 runs continuously and silently in the background of my desktop computer. It is truly "set and go", so I don't have to think about it when I'm away. It runs until the designated drive has been fully backed up to my cloud storage. It will then automatically email me once the backup is complete (or, it will email me if it encounters any errors).
    • Customer service is above par. Anytime I need help, a chat agent is available (chat is my communication preference), they are always friendly, and go above and beyond to resolve my needs.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
    • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
    • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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    Cons
    CrashPlan
    • The CrashPlan program installed on your computer is Java-based vs. a native application. While this makes development for CrashPlan easier, there are a lot of drawbacks to Java programs including more resources usage, less stability, and overall more clunky interface.
    • While this was also in the Pros category - CrashPlan is an extremely powerful and flexible program, which adds a great deal of complexity. Setting up CrashPlan isn't always a simple procedure, and depending on the complexity of your backup set, can take a while to tinker around with the settings to get everything to work properly.
    • The CrashPlan desktop program consists of a Java program front end, as well as a backend service - there are times when the backend service will crash, and the front end Java program will refuse to load. Typically, restarting the service or restarting the computer will resolve the issue, but sometimes more in-depth troubleshooting is required.
    • Perhaps one of the biggest downsides to CrashPlan is its price - at $10/month/computer CrashPlan is more than double the price of some existing backup services such as Backblaze (priced at $50/year/computer). To add salt to the wound, about a year and a half ago, CrashPlan discontinued their consumer options - which were very reasonably priced at $60/year for a single computer or a family plan priced at $150/year for up to 10 computers. When these options were discontinued, the cost of backing up with CrashPlan was effectively doubled for the same feature set.
    • Along with the previous example, CrashPlan had the option to back up to a remote machine on a different network with a free Crashplan account. This option was eliminated when the consumer line of services were discontinued.
    • While the backup service provided by CrashPlan are still first in class, the above two controversial changes have broken some trust between CrashPlan and its clients.
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    Veeam Software
    • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
    • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
    • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CrashPlan
    No other product works as well.
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    Veeam Software
    Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
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    Usability
    CrashPlan
    Overall, it is simple to use, lightweight, and effective.
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    Veeam Software
    It was so easy that you thought it wasn't working. Once you saw data and was able to recover it or do a restore with the product those beliefs in the system went to the roof. Once you get a product that does everything you want it to do, you will give it it's props.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    CrashPlan
    Friendly and knowledgeable support team available to assist with this product. Code 42 (formerly CrashPlan) offers unlimited storage options for reasonable costs, so you really can't go wrong with this product. They have been a reliable resource for our company, and I would recommend to others looking for an easy setup with unlimited storage.
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    Veeam Software
    Great support team!
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    Implementation Rating
    CrashPlan
    Very easy to follow the install guide.
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    Veeam Software
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    CrashPlan
    Unitrends is our primary backup solution here at my place of employment, and I have no complaints. It does on-prem backups to a storage pool and with that, we chose not to also use Unitrends could storage as the cost was pretty high. Crashplan has a low cost and we were familiar with it. We found a great fit for Crashplan at a remote office with a web server, file share server, and a Domain Controller in addition to the Unitrends solution there. I also set up CrashPlan for a nonprofit org, as well as a Health foods store. I felt like I could stand behind the CrashPlan solution with my experience with it, in places like these where every dollar mattered.
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    Veeam Software
    Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
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    Return on Investment
    CrashPlan
    • Tremendous cost savings as the amount of data you backup doesn't impact cost. One flat rate!
    • Implementation time was minimal and requires little to no maintenance. Since installation, I've not had to correct or fix any issues. It just works.
    • We opted to supplement Code42 with another solution that allowed us to backup data to a local repository due to the amount for data that changes in our firm.
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    Veeam Software
    • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
    • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
    • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
    • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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    ScreenShots

    CrashPlan Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard – Endpoints Backup, Shows: Active users, assets, completed restores, total data backed up, and users without active assets.Screenshot of Dashboard – OneDrive for Business
This screen tracks backup performance for OneDrive for Business.
Metrics: Active users, active assets, users with completed backups, assets not protected (0%), and total backup size (321.45 MB).
Reports include Data Protection Scorecard, Asset Assignment, and Capacity Savings.Screenshot of Dashboard – Microsoft Exchange
This screen presents Microsoft Exchange backup overview.Screenshot of Dashboard – SharePoint Online
This view shows backup activity for SharePoint Online.