Voor mij werd het dus Crashplan.
Secure backup to your own computers and hard drives or friends & family – no storage limits.
Rob Platt beschrijft Crashplan als volgt:
CrashPlan will let you back up to a remote server, for a small fee, just like any other online backup software. What makes CrashPlan so unique, is that you can back up to your friends, or your other computers, for free, regardless if they’re on your LAN or not. You can back up to multiple sources as well. For example, a PC in house, and a friends PC across town. You have the convenience of a local restore being quick, and the security that your data is off-site in case of a disaster or theft. Oh, yes, your data is encrypted. No need to worry about others seeing financial and other private information.
Een geweldige service. Vergeleken met concurrenten (Carbonite is er zo een) zijn de mogelijkheden van crashplan aanzienlijk groter.
Crashplan draait op de achtergrond op je computer en doet zijn werk. Je merkt er niks van. De hoeveelheid resources die gebruikt worden valt enorm mee.
Crashplan is er voor Windows, Windows 64-bit), Mac OS X, Linux en Solaris.
Extra-tje
N.B. Ik kwam er achter dat er in de User Interface van Crashplan een ‘verborgen’ optie zit.
Dubbel-klik op het Crashplan icoon in de rechter bovenhoek en er verschijnt een nieuw window waarin opdrachten kunnen worden gegeven.
Dit is de lijst met beschikbare Crashplan commando’s:
| backup.scan (scan) | Scan the selected back up paths for changed files. |
| backup.set (set) | Manage backup sets. |
| backup.validate | Validate all or a given destination. |
| deauthorize | Deauthorize the computer. This completely disables the backup service and requires login to resume. |
| disconnect | Disconnect all or the given computer. |
| dump | Dump important system information to the logs to help support. |
| getlogs | Get client log files for support. |
| guid | Change the global unique identifier for this computer. If ‘deactivate’ is specified then this computer will be deactivated before the identity reassignment. If ‘new’ is specified than a random generated guid will be used. You can also provide an existing guid. No arguments will show your current guid. |
| help | Show a list of available commands. |
| log | Control logging levels. |
| pause.system (pause) | Disable the backup service |
| pause.target | Pause backup to a given target |
| reauthorize | Reauthorize with the server. |
| reconnect | Reconnect all or the given computer. |
| restart | Restart the backup service. |
| resume.system (resume) | Enable the backup service. |
| shutdown (stop,exit) | Shutdown the service. |
| sleep | Disable the backup service. |
| version | Print the version date/time string given a long version number. |