On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Rob Hasselbaum <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Rich Braun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >> I'm looking into this as well and considering CrashPlan. My understanding is >> that it's free if you can find someone to "peer" with (i.e. trade disk >> space). But they also have unlimited space plans if you back up to their >> servers. For 6 TB, hopefully you don't have any bandwidth caps. ;-) > > I was just looking at their web site and the concept of a "seeded > backup" is mentioned. > You do an initial backup to local disk and then send it offsite. > It's not clear whether > this only works if you send the disk to them or if you can do this > when you are backing up to > a friend. If this works with the free version of the software, > perhaps people on this list > could provide service to each other and exchange disks at meetings. > Actually, even if there software > doesn't work that way; we could still do that.. > > Bill Bogstad
I haven't done it, but I understand you pay Crashplan, they send you a disk, you fill it and ship it back. They put it into the cloud. Then you start running either Crashplan or Crashplan+ client to sync it. I have moved a Crashplan backup service from one machine to another. I basically copies everything under the Crashplan folder to the new crashplan folder on the different machine. I wound up having two crashplan folders on the new machine. The old one I 'imported' into crashplan, and used that data, plus putting new backups into the new directory. No, I didn't delve into it very far, but I did verify I could do backups and restores from old data after the move. If you do get it to work smoothly, please post a howto somewhere for us all to reference :) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
