{"id":2092,"date":"2008-06-29T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2008-06-29T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:56:33","slug":"crash-plan-good-online-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/crash-plan-good-online-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash Plan, Good Online Backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/securitynow.htm\">Security Now<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashplan.com\/\">Crash Plan<\/a>. It looks like it might be an excellent online backup tool. I had been fiddling with the idea of using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxbackup.org\/\">BoxBackup<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/backup\/\">local mention<\/a>). But it was too much of a bother to set up (and limited to &lt;2 GB files).<\/p>\n<p>Right now I use Mozy and I&#8217;m very happy with it. I needed it a few days ago when AVG Antivirus thought it would delete some files it thought were viruses. One of them was an .mbox file of a mailing list I ran several years ago that did indeed have a virus. The trouble is, it DELETED the file instead of putting it in the virus vault or the &#8220;Recycle bin&#8221;. It would have been GONE forever, fuckers.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to get Mozy, I will <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/mozy-offsite-backup-discount\/\">split the referral fee I get from them if you follow these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Crash Plan looks very interesting. The demo shows a very pretty interface. You can backup files to your friends&#8217; computers securely (so there&#8217;s no ongoing monthly payments). The $60 Pro version allows versioning. When my subscription is coming up, I&#8217;ll seriously think about using it. I know that if I had a total crash, I&#8217;d be grumbling at the time it takes to download the 90+ GB I have on the Mozy servers. They have a $30\/DVD plan where you can burn copies of your data. That&#8217;d be quicker but still a bother. If the files were on a relative&#8217;s computer, I&#8217;d have them mail it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, and with a linux install, maybe I could put my Dreamhost disk space to good use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard on Security Now about Crash Plan. It looks like it might be an excellent online backup tool. I had been fiddling with the idea of using BoxBackup (local mention). But it was too much of a bother to set up (and limited to &lt;2 GB files). Right now I use Mozy and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}