CrashPlan vs. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CrashPlan
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
CrashPlan® 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 Microsoft 365
Score 8.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is a BaaS (Backup as a Service) solution used to back up and restore Microsoft 365 data, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data.N/A
Pricing
CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
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 Microsoft 365
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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Features
CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
CrashPlan
8.3
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
8.6
148 Ratings
1% above 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 Ratings8.2144 Ratings
Platform support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.01 Ratings9.1144 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.6128 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
CrashPlan
8.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
7.8
134 Ratings
1% below category average
Continuous data protection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery6.01 Ratings7.989 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.8129 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings7.794 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
CrashPlan
-
Ratings
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
8.4
124 Ratings
2% below category average
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings9.296 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings8.7119 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search00 Ratings7.5109 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
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User Ratings
CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(84 ratings)
8.7
(289 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(2 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.4
(290 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(8 ratings)
8.8
(281 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
8.9
(8 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
CrashPlanVeeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
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
Analyzing campaign performance is a great area where the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is well-suited, and it’s working well. In the past, when we analyzed campaign performance, we had to use outside vendors, which was a time-consuming, laborious, and costly process.
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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.
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Veeam Software
  • Granular restoration of emails within a mailbox
  • Complete Restoration of a Mailbox
  • Restoration of Teams Conversations
  • Add users for backups
  • Restauración granular de correos electrónicos dentro de un buzón
  • Restauración completa de un buzón
  • Restauración de conversaciones de TEAMS
  • Agregar usuarios para respaldos
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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
  • I would like the option to remove users from the backup and set them to an alternate storage location/ archive location. Currently, my backups are at 7 TB, and I would like to segment out data with lower data retention requirements.
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Likelihood to Renew
CrashPlan
No other product works as well.
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Veeam Software
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 just works so well and is so easy to use. I researched multiple options for Office 365 backup and none seemed to be as easy to setup and use as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and the pricing was very comfortable to us. I can't imagine any reason why we would change away from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
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Usability
CrashPlan
Overall, it is simple to use, lightweight, and effective.
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Veeam Software
The interface is simple, but powerful. It's easy to setup, easy to use. It's able to restore individual files and emails with ease. Would like to see the wording on some features cleared up, as it's caused us some confusing learning the tool.
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Reliability and Availability
CrashPlan
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
I have yet to need it during any of their scheduled maintenance windows. It's always online.
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Performance
CrashPlan
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
We have a lot of data, and pulling backups out of the store sometimes takes a bit of time - but this is within acceptable tolerances. I don't expect restores to be instantaneous, and I can't quantify if the speed is software or data repository.
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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
The setup support we received was extremely helpful. They allowed us to learn as they created the policies and managed the handoff between setup and guided setup very well. This resulted in active, usable policies and us having the knowledge to adapt these as our needs change in the future.
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Implementation Rating
CrashPlan
Very easy to follow the install guide.
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Veeam Software
Really easy, but we are not a big company. I am not backing up all users, just those that could fire me.
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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
First and foremost, Veeam's reputation stood out. They have been a leader in the backup vendors for a few years. That reputation along with recommendations from colleagues sold us on Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365. The other vendors that we did demo's with were lacluster in setup and performance. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 immediately won us over.
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Scalability
CrashPlan
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
I have had no issues scaling this software as my organisation or data estate has grown. It always does exaclty what it says on the box.
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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
  • The only real impact is from a compliance standpoint. Our company is expected at a regulatory level to be protecting our data and even though the tenant has little traffic there could still be some regulated data in there. We have to be able to tell an auditor that it's being backed up by an enterprise grade solution, and that's what VDC was intended for.
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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.

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Screenshots

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