CrashPlan: shared backup and recovery made easy

January 18th, 2007  |  Published in Uncategorized  |  1 Comment

CrashPlan:

Features:

* It’s automatic
* No monthly fees
* Backup to any computer, yours or your friends!
* Offsite Security
* Cross Platform (Mac, PC, Linux)

Now this seems like a really cool idea, and I’m going to try it out. But my first impressions are not so good. The desktop client is slow, and by slow I mean it is slow in geologic time.

### Update 1 ###
* My god it is slow
![Please Wait](http://blog.samdevore.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/please_wait.png)
* many connection failures
![Critical Failure, you betcha](http://blog.samdevore.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/critical_failure_you_betcha.png)
* scaling problems on the server backend or just bad design? what does this say about quality and safety of backups…

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  1. Matthew Dornquast says:

    January 21st, 2007 at 8:26 pm (#)

    Hi Sam!

    Sorry to read you had a bad experience evaluating CrashPlan.

    A new release went out yesterday that addresses the connectivity issues you experienced.

    The quality and safety of backups shouldn’t ever be affected by CrashPlan Central availability. One of the key features of CrashPlan is direct backup between your hosts. We also let you backup to as many hosts as you want, so the chances of issues at all of them are greatly reduced.

    Best regards,

    ~Matthew

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