I've use the Crashplan Pro service at work, but haven't setup the local storage option. I'd have to go back and read their material to be sure, but I think that local storage is on your own equipment, not on an appliance that they provide. (There are companies that do it that way, I just don't think Crashplan is one of them.) Trying that out is on my eventual "todo" list.
We back up both linux servers and personal workstations/laptops (mac & windows) using Crashplan. For workstations, users can manage their own backups and recoveries, and I can jump in when they need help. For servers, I take care of it myself. I haven't had to do any disaster-level recovers, but I've lots of small recovers for accidentally clobbered files and a handful tests on the order of 100G just to be sure it all works. I probably keep around 2TB of data backed up. I've been very pleased with the service. Recovery has always gone well. Backups are pretty much invisible. I get automated email telling me that status of the backups on a regular basis. Every few months some system gets a wedged process and I have to go restart it. The backup processes keep a local cache directory. I've found that putting that on it's own filesystem helps keep things running smoothly because the backup process will let the cache fill the disk and that can be problematic. $7.95 per system per month (with unlimited storage) The price is right. My only real complaint is administrative. They insist on a credit card as payment and they don't (e)mail invoices, so you have to go on to their website and fetch the invoices if your billing department requires them. Without going into details, I'll say that I used to use Iron Mountain (acquired by Autonomy). I was very unhappy with them and would recommend avoiding them. -R. Gary On 5/29/13 12:05 PM, Michael Tiernan wrote: > Out of curiosity, have you looked at the CrashPlan appliance? > > I think they call it CrashPlan Pro (or something like that) but they > put an appliance of their's on site and it is part of the overall > cloud storage done for speed. > > I haven't and I'm just wondering what opinions on it are. (Only out of > a bystander's curiosity.) _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
