By default it backs up everything, even your OS drive. The first thing that surprised me was that you can’t easily choose what to backup. I signed up for a 30 day trial, and installed the PC client. It sounded very good, $5 a month for 1 computer – unlimited backup sizes, unlimited file sizes, and backups of external drives. Unfortunately, CrashPlan was putting an end to the Home Service, I’m assuming it wasn’t profitable enough for them. This is a breakdown of my usage as of today:Īfter a bit of research online I came up with options Backblaze or CrashPlan – they are both reasonably priced and have good reviews. Using a Canon DSLR regularly along with a GoPro style helmet cam means the storage of photos and music grows rapidly.
So for now the backup consists of two drives which are roughly 4TB in total.ĤTB might sound like a lot but I have a lot of photos, music and videos to backup. Ideally I’d have to two sets of drives so that the data and backups are never in the same location – I’ll get to that someday. Since then I keep copies of all my important data on USB drives which I keep in work, and bring home monthly to update, the process is described here. Computers were single drives then so I lost all of my data and operating system too. In the days when 100MB drives were the norm and Microsoft Office came on 43 floppy disks, in the process of formatting a floppy disk I somehow managed to format my work hard drive.
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