CrashPlan Backup software

[akimba]

Hi All

Me laptop making wurring noises so looking for a decent back up solution, I have onedrive to back me photos etc to but want to back up the whole comp to my NAS so can restore whole machine if HD goes.

Looking on the internet CrashPlan seems to be highly recommended and for local back ups its seems to be Free, anyone use it?

[evilsatan]

I would use Clonezilla to make a full image backup. If you want ongoing backups then you can use Rsync which syncs folders.

[chesser]

I use Crashplan and it works absolutely fine, if you have a mate or a family member where you could store an external hard drive for example then it's free, I backup to the cloud and have over 1TB, I recently had to restore 133GB of photos and it worked like a treat.

[akimba]

I use Crashplan and it works absolutely fine, if you have a mate or a family member where you could store an external hard drive for example then it's free, I backup to the cloud and have over 1TB, I recently had to restore 133GB of photos and it worked like a treat.

I am looking to back up me laptop/desktop to me raided microserver which has TB's of space anyhow. So it is free for this, you only pay if you want to use their cloud for storage then?

[chesser]

Yes mate, the free bit is easy too set it up on both point it at it enter a code then off you go....

[akimba]

To get it to back up to my Microserver do I need to install it on both machines and is it the same install to host the back ups as well as the client side?
as I put it on me laptop and went to computers tab and it says I can back up just to my laptop :-S

I know I could read the instructions/help and find out but more fun this way ;-)

[chesser]

Yes almost like a client server relationship as a unique code is generated for each client that the server knows about to make the secure connection..