CrashPlan

I use CrashPlan for workstations and server file backups at many of my clients. It solves the issues of lost files and gives peace of mind that files are backed up with a good amount of retention. I manage about 15 different clients, 30 servers, and over 100 workstations.

• Ease of use
• Cost effective
• Virtually no management

• Saved many hours of work recovering deleted files.
• Piece of mind that files are safe.
• Easy restoration process.

Carbonite Safe (formerly Mozy), Carbonite Server, Arcserve Business Continuity Cloud and Arcserve UDP

Splashtop Enterprise, RingCentral Meetings, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

We currently use CrashPlan on our Marketing server which has files going back 17 years. Using CrashPlan we are able to be safe knowing that our files are backed up and that we can grab any files either deleted or corrupted with ease. The history function allows us to go back quite a bit of time for those much-needed files.

• It has saved our Marketing team countless hours of lost or corrupted files being able to be restored over the years.
• Although the cost has gone up just like any other software, it is still affordable for the amazing tool it is.

Unitrends and Veeam Backup for Azure

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, Sophos Intercept X

I use CrashPlan as a budget point solution for small businesses and SOHO clients. This is predominantly to provide backup of critical data for individuals, families, or small businesses. It is not to provide system recovery backup but specifically focuses on the critical/important data an individual, family or small business would want to have backed up, off-site. Invariably it is used as the off-site component of a classic 3-2-1 backup plan.

• Price
• General reliability. Although woe is me if/when things to go wrong and I need to get support.
• Regional/local data storage options

• A positive is that it has allowed me to implement a very cost-effective cloud backup point solution for multiple clients
• A negative is, in case you haven't got it yet... Support is consistently sub-par

Veritas Backup Exec and NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Microsoft 365, Veritas Backup Exec, ManageEngine Desktop Central, LastPass for Business

We use CrashPlan as a secondary cloud backup in addition to another on-prem Backup solution for a satellite office where a Digital Asset Management Server resides. It is perfectly capable as a primary backup solution, but in our environment, it made a great secondary layer of protection. We also used CrashPlan for certain freelance artists who choose to use Macbook and iMac machines to keep company assets secure. Crashplan has proved to be incredibly intuitive, easy to implement and restore assets with. I have set CrashPlan up at two other organizations with great success as their primary backup solution.

• Reliability.
• Cost is low as it is a secondary solution.
• Ease of data recovery.

• The cost is low enough that we can use it as a secondary backup solution without hesitation.
• Restoration is very easy, especially when a file or folder was deleted mistakenly.
• Downtime is costly, good backups really save a great deal of money.

Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery

Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery, Webroot Antivirus + Internet Security Complete (SecureAnywhere), NCR Counterpoint

I use CrashPlan to constantly backup updated and new files on our backup server, for redundancy. I needed something to add to my backup plan that would present another offsite option that was not tied to my geographic area, and that was also file-oriented as opposed to snapshot-driven.

• Consistency of uptime.
• Flexibility with mapped drives.
• Restoration of versioned files.

• Low cost for peace of mind.
• The few times I've had to restore files, it would have been a huge deal if I didn't have this tool available to me.

Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Mortgage Builder Software