CrashPlan can save your bacon!
June 13, 2017

CrashPlan can save your bacon!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with CrashPlan

We are using Crashplan Pro on one device. We backup to several destinations including the Code42 cloud. We are using Crashplan to backup data because we were not satisfied with the speed, versions, and reliability of backing up to tape.
  • Crashplan just runs quietly. It doesn't need much attention once configured properly.
  • I really like that I can go back to virtually any point in time and restore a file or group of files.
  • Crashplan deduplicates so you can have multiple versions of your files without taking much more disk space.
  • It is very easy and fast to restore files.
  • They are constantly updating Crashplan, They have already addressed areas that I was unhappy with. I don't have any current complaints.
  • This software is much less expensive than all others that I considered.
  • Because we are using Crashplan, I have been able to restore data that would have cost a fortune to recreate.
I have used several tape drives over the years with Symantec Backup Exec. Tapes have so many negatives associated with them, I would never recommend them as a backup system. I have also tried a couple of other disk based backup systems. Compared to all other backup solutions that I have encountered, Crashplan is a pleasure to use. It is very simple, yet very powerful. Stop reading these reviews and try it for yourself. You won't be sorry.

Almost anywhere that you want continuous backups. You wouldn't be able to backup a live database like Exchange. If you dump your database, you can back that up. I don't believe you would be able to restore a single email for instance. For backing up non database files, Crashplan is awesome.