CrashPlan delivers piece of mind and speedy recovery
March 29, 2022
CrashPlan delivers piece of mind and speedy recovery
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Code42 CrashPlan
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.
- Installation and configuration is very straight forward.
- Asset recovery is a simple and intuitive process.
- Shows real time backup results in your server notification window.
- Currently the 2FA seems to be a bit more difficult than other applications.
- Imbedded rules preventing a select few file types from backing up, call support for help if these are required.
- Differentiating between personal and business accounts is unclear.
- 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 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.
Do you think CrashPlan delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with CrashPlan's feature set?
Yes
Did CrashPlan live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of CrashPlan go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy CrashPlan again?
Yes