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CrashPlan

Overview

What is CrashPlan?

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.

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Pricing

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CrashPlan Essential

$2.99

Cloud
per month

CrashPlan Professional

$88

Cloud
per year

CrashPlan Enterprise

$108

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.crashplan.com/pricing/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $2.99 per month
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Product Details

What is CrashPlan?

Data protection in a cloud backup solution for businesses with up to 200 employees, providing:

  • External drive backup
  • Customer File Retention
  • Control over how long deleted files are retained

File Retention

With CrashPlan’s pricing the user can protect external hard drives for no additional cost. If a drive is moved, CrashPlan will pick up where it left off the next time it is plugged in.

Restore Files from Any Computer

Restoration via desktop app or browser and no charge to restore files.

Data Security

256-bit AES data encryption at rest, configurable settings, and BAA available to support HIPAA compliance needs.


The solution also provides:
Dedicated Supportavailable by chat and email. Documentation always available.
Ransomware Recovery
Restore files to the latest versions without paying a ransom for them.

CrashPlan Features

  • Supported: Automatic, continuous data protection
  • Supported: Full visibility of all protected devices and data in a single dashboard
  • Supported: Self-service restore

CrashPlan Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

CrashPlan starts at $2.99.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of CrashPlan are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found the product to be extremely useful for project management, allowing them to easily track tasks, set deadlines, and monitor progress. This has been particularly beneficial for teams working on complex and time-sensitive projects. Customers have praised the product's collaboration features, which enable seamless teamwork, file sharing, and effective communication among team members. The ability to work together in real-time has significantly improved project efficiency and productivity. Additionally, reviewers have highlighted the product's robust reporting capabilities, which allow users to generate detailed reports and analyze project data. This feature has proven invaluable for tracking project performance and making data-driven decisions. Users have also appreciated the product's integration with other tools such as email clients and calendar applications, which streamlines task management and ensures seamless workflow. The customization options provided by the product have been highly valued by customers, as it allows them to tailor the software to their specific project management needs. Furthermore, reviewers have consistently mentioned the user-friendly interface of the product, making it easy for both experienced and novice users to navigate and utilize its features effectively. The availability of a mobile app has been particularly convenient for users who need access to their projects on the go. Additionally, customers have found the scalability of the product beneficial, as it accommodates the needs of both small teams and larger organizations. Finally, reviewers have praised the product's prompt customer support that offers helpful assistance when encountering any issues or questions. Users particularly appreciate this aspect as it enhances their overall experience with the product. Ultimately, users have reported that one of the most efficient features of the product is its task automation capability, which saves them valuable time and effort in managing repetitive or routine tasks.

Easy Deployment and Management: Users have consistently found the product to be easy to deploy and manage, making it convenient for administrators. Several reviewers mentioned that the setup process was straightforward and that they were able to configure the product in less than 30 minutes.

Complete Endpoint Protection: The complete endpoint protection provided by the product has been highly appreciated by users. Many reviewers highlighted how this feature is superior to relying on users to manually back up data, ensuring that important files are always protected.

Cloud Backup with Mobile Access: Users have praised the benefits of cloud backup offered by the product. They appreciate being able to back up their data even when they are out of the office, as well as having the convenience of accessing their files through a mobile app.

Cons:

  1. Java-based Program: Users have expressed dissatisfaction with the Code42 program being Java-based, citing increased resource usage, stability issues, and a clunky interface as drawbacks. Some users have reported crashes in the Java front end of the desktop program, requiring them to restart the service or their computer for resolution.
  2. Price and Trust Concerns: Several users have mentioned that they find Code42 to be more expensive compared to other backup services like Backblaze. The discontinuation of consumer options and the removal of the ability to back up to a remote machine on a different network have damaged trust between Code42 and its clients.
  3. Lacking Technical Support: The technical support provided by Code42 has been criticized for being lacking, with unclear support ticketing processes and limited phone support hours. Some users have expressed frustration with the level of assistance received when encountering issues with the software.

Based on user reviews, the following recommendations are frequently mentioned for CrashPlan:

  1. Users suggest comparing CrashPlan to competitors to ensure better value and carefully evaluating their needs before making a decision. They advise considering alternatives like Backblaze and rsync before finalizing the choice.

  2. CrashPlan's excellent support is highly recommended. Users suggest speaking with current Code42 users to gain insights into different use cases and understand how the product is utilized by other companies.

  3. Users recommend implementing CrashPlan as soon as possible, especially for managing both Windows and Linux servers. They find CrashPlan to be a reliable and stable backup solution, making it suitable for both personal and business use.

These recommendations emphasize the importance of thorough evaluation, seeking opinions from other users, and taking advantage of CrashPlan's support for a successful implementation process.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
CrashPlan is used across the whole organization. Every employee has it installed on their laptop and we also have it installed on some some servers to back up their data files. Most employees are remote and CrashPlan allows us to back up everyone without having to host our own backup server.
  • Crashplan backs up everything with ease. By default it starts backing up your user profile without even having to configure it, and thats enough for many people to get up and running right away, but it is highly configurable if you want.
  • Restoring files is pretty effortless as well. Easy to browse to the file(s) you want, choose a point in time if you want, and restore. Viola!
  • Versioning is a great automatic feature as well. Many of my users have taken advantage of restoring a previous version of a file they've mistakenly overwritten.
  • Being able to backup to multiple destinations is great too. You can connect your own storage, choose it as a destination and it starts using it. The local destination backup option makes restoration of large data much quicker.
  • Their version 5 client is almost too hands off. While one can appreciate the simplicity and cleanness of its design, I often prefer to get under the hood right away.
  • I wish they would make it easier to open the client from the system tray in version 5. In previous versions you would just double click the icon. Now it takes 3 clicks to expand the tray icon, open the settings and choose to open the actual application.
  • Sometimes destinations are offline when you need to restore, and usually at the worst time. We use CrashPlan to restore data for laptop replacements, and there are times when the destination is offline and you have to wait a while for the restore option to be available.
CrashPlan is a reliable, easy to use but very configurable data backup solution. It is an ideal choice for backing up users' data and even files on a file server, and not having to worry about tapes or other mediums. It's appropriate for anyone that needs to ensure their users' files are safe from everything from accidental deletion to ransomware. It is not a solution for bare-metal restore or for backing up/restoring individual database records since there are no agents that go along with it.
  • Our company has a mostly mobile workforce. We had struggled with a way to have everyone's files backed up. A local backup solution wasn't going to cut it, especially for those that never use VPN, and would be a huge administrative burden. Adding a cloud backup solution, with unlimited storage space for every user was a perfect choice.
  • A per a user backup solution it has also aided the helpdesk team with the replacement of computers. It saves a ton of time to be able to image a new computer, start a CrashPlan restore and just give the computer to the user, knowing all their files will be there.
  • We've taken advantage of CrashPlan to recover from a ransomware attack, with zero loss of files. We would have at least lost the affected users' files without a local backup, and restoration of the network share files would have taken a great amount of time if we had to do it via tape.
We compared CrashPlan with other choices and they were either too expensive or didn't have the backup capacity we required at the time. For lack of a better solution, we were very close to signing with Mozy, and this was years ago when CrashPlan was still a new player in the market. I found them at the eleventh hour and started the product comparison. Mozy couldn't offer us unlimited storage space and when we found that CrashPlan could, it was almost a no-brainer. Carbonite was a close contender as well, but if I recall correctly, they didn't offer enterprise level pricing that we were looking for (note, this was years ago and their current offerings may be different).
Yes
Replaced a local tape backup solution from EMC Retrospect. A tape backup solution was no longer a viable solution, due to growing data sets and an increasing remote workforce. A cloud solution was needed.
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  • Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
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While many factors combined led to us signing with Code42, back then we were a smaller business and getting new purchases approved often came down to price. I had to break down the need for a solution, the features it provided and how we would implement it. We were lucky that CrashPlan offered us everything we needed at a price point we could afford.
Six years later the industry has changed, other competitors have stepped up their game and new solutions are on the market. We would have more to consider when comparing solutions and would rely on not only our own testing but third party assessments and reviews. From time to time we still check what is available to ensure we are still using the right solution and CrashPlan continues to receive high praise for both corporate and consumer offerings.
Clifford Goeke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have 15 local users and 35 remote users. I set up a parent and two sub organizations. The subs were set not to inherit the parent settings so I could control who could make changes to the settings. The remote users are locked down so we can be compliant with regulations about data archiving and retention. Remote users can not delete from backups and backups are set for unlimited retention. The backup is set to run continuously. The only issue we have had was with a user that has a satellite internet connection with limited or capped data. The first backup used most of her data allotment for the month. Users had to be educated to leave their computer on while the first backup was running.
  • After the install the user doesn't have to do anything. Our remote users were used to having to copy data to an external drive for archiving. Which meant it usually wasn't done. The central office didn't have access to any of those files either.
  • I am able to monitor which users are backed up and contact those that appear to be having issues.
  • Since the install package exceeded the attachment size allowed with our email client I included an HTML link to the location of the download.
  • The install took less than 10 minutes including the download of the software. Our documentation included screen shots of what the user should expect to see. This allowed remote users to install without having central IT get involved.
  • The management website times out frequently requiring a re-login.
  • Some of the information reported isn't consistent. Because each user can have multiple devices the number of devices doesn't match user number.
  • The number of users is the number of accounts that you have set up. Not the number of active users.
  • Some of the settings report inaccurately when first entering the screen. Refreshing the screen will update the settings. The help desk is aware of the problem and they are working to resolve the issue.
CrashPlan is great where you have remote or inexperienced users. It is a set and forget application. It just works.
  • We were using iDrive for the central office backup. With the amount of data we were using monthly the upgraded plan would have cost us as much as the entire install of Crashplan.
  • Getting a backup solution for our remote users was a very high priority. We paid for the dedicated engineer to help with the install. This saved a lot of time researching or hunting information for the install. It paid for itself is saved time for our IT department.
The deduplication feature and continuous backup puts this application ahead of others. The ability to prevent users from deleting files from backups is another feature that was attractive for our management and legal team. Set and forget is great. No intervention from the remote user is even better. I don't have to worry about whether they did the backup. Cost wise the application is on par with other cloud based backup [solutions]. Plus CrashPlan will keep the user from deleting files from the backups. We evaluated iDrive, Carbonite, Zipcloud, BitCasa, and SpiderOak. CrashPlan required a little more IT setup on the front end but was a better fit for our organization.
IT Manager
All you need is a browser pointed to the dashboard site. Select the area you need to look into.
  • Employee changed a BIG excel spread sheet and the formulas stopped working. Restored to previous version in seconds.
  • Complete user profile restore after a hard drive crashed.
  • local restore of a remote users files when cloning a laptop for a new employee
  • Ransom ware recovery.
  • Meet government requirements for data retention.
  • Peace of mind for our board knowing we have the data backed up and accessible.
No other product works as well.
Yes
We used several "solutions" for data backup. None was centrally managed. None allowed us to see the backup was actually being done.
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Just look at the other users. There are some pretty heavy hitters there.
Look at crash plan sooner.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Plan on a couple hours to work with the install engineer.
  • Getting remote users to install.
for stand alone remote users it might be helpful to get an automation install script made.
Yes
It is a separate line on the invoice but charge is zero.
I've only had to wait once for an answer. That happened when the chat person had to escalate. Still got my problem fixed within an hour.
No
From the start. They assigned a dedicated support engineer to get us up. He stayed on the phone until The install was up. Any questions I had or things that I wasn't clear on were answered right away.
  • How about a central dashboard for the program.
  • Make a change and push it out to all or a select group of users.
  • No remote user intervention required.
  • A function I used (night dashboard look) was removed in an update. I had to search to find why it changed and wasn't working.
Yes
Web based dashboard. Look at it from anyplace.
We use the program and I have personally recommended and help set it up on several client personal computers.
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