Item: CrashPlan
Rating: 10
Author: Michael Stepetic

Overall Satisfaction with CrashPlan

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Crashplan is used through the entire organization, from backing up desktops and servers to local SAN storage and offsite data. It addresses the need for local desktop backups and offsite DR.

Pros and Cons

Pros

User Self Restores
Active Directory Integration
Local and Offiste Backup
You own the encryption keys
Multi-Server, Multi-Node configurations

Cons

Locations for Training

Return on Investment

Ease of restores keep our IT team focused on other issues.
Monthly cost is great for our bottom line.
Ease of management keeps the IT team management hours low.

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Backup Exec and Acronis Cloud Backup

Allows us to manage ALL of our devices within one simple console. Server restores, desktop restores, legal holds and file searching. This software does it all without any nickel and diming you on cost.

Likelihood to Recommend

Crashplan is ideal for the SMB companies looking to start off with something relatively simple and easy to manage. It scales into the enterprise with the same simplicity and ease of management.

CrashPlan Implementation

Implementation Rating

Very easy to follow the install guide.

Implementation Details / Implementation Partner

Implemented in-house

LDAP query string was a bit different than normal for AD integration.

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