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So far I like crashplan for remote backups on my personal machines (a few Ubuntu and one Windows machine). I did a little research and it fits my needs.

Initially looked at Backblaze and saw Mac and Windows only support so that was a no-go.



I really wanted to use it with Ubuntu but it was incompatible with an encrypted /home. The daemon would start at boot and, unable to mount my target directory in /home, would create a new target directory in / and fill that up.

I opened a ticket and their support people seemed confused by Linux, and told me to check the user forums. Since this is a paid product I saw this a poor service and cancelled.

It did look interesting but I got the impression that Linux wasn't really supported - just that a Linux client existed.


Did you know linux crashplan doesn't store full permissions?

Try a 200GB restore of 5M files sometime, apparently often the client crashes after many hours.




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