![]() As usual per a public cloud, sending data to Azure is free but if you have to do a restore and send data from Azure to your restore target, will cost you. We can use the free Azure credits perfectly fine to host a Virtual Machine to put CrashPlan on and send the backups to Azure. So put it $475, get out $1200 alone in Azure credits, not too bad. It’s especially interesting when knowing you get $100 per month on Azure credits. Personally, I use the Office365 licenses and basically all other licenses (Windows/Office/Visual Studio) that are included. However, there’s a whole lot more in the Action Pack that you can use. Significantly more than the $150 a year for CrashPlan. OK, the title of this post might be a little misleading because the Action Pack itself is not cheap $475 a year (plus you need to do a couple of quizzes before they let you register). Basically anything you need to run a SMB. There’s this Action Pack membership which Microsoft has for partners to get Windows, Office, Visual Studio, Office365 licenses (and a lot more), but it also includes monthly Azure credits. Microsoft Action Pack and its Azure credits That would be an easy way to get around the fact that were is not going to be a CrashPlan cloud pretty soon. ![]() The CrashPlan client has the ability to send your backups to another computer instead of the CrashPlan cloud. Switching means I need to do education on the new client. On top of that, I have non-technical users which are used to the CrashPlan client and can work with it just fine. Unfortunately, the alternatives like BackBlaze, Carbonite or Mozy don’t have similar family plans, which make them roughly 2 to 3 times more expensive than CrashPlan for Home was. I had the family plan, which allows you to backup multiple computers (I have a ‘few’) for $150 a year. Meaning every consumer has to transfer their backups to another solution. Recently, Code42 announced they’d be shutting down CrashPlan for Home to focus on their business customers. It’s a set and forget application, which is nice. From the client you can restore individual files and it runs as a service for continuous backups. It’s a pretty neat and usable backup client which works on Mac OS, Linux and Windows. I use CrashPlan Home for all my off-site backups of my client devices.
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