07-12-2011, 04:48 PM
Clay,
I understand that! Fortunately, Crashplan doesn't cost a dime for the way I'm using it. No monthly fees at all since it's going from one computer to another computer. Nothing is being stored in the cloud. I think you have to pay a fee if you want to store backups on the cloud and/or That setup is for my parents. My own setup differs.
At home, I have a Drobo connected to my Mac Pro. We both have Crashplan. As a friend, her HP laptop backs up over the network to my tower. I've told Crashplan to store her backups on the Drobo and to limit the storage available to her backups to 500 gigs. The rest of the storage is allocated to a backup of my media and for a revolving storage of my personal backups.
No probs so far. No cost either. Here are the details for the difference between free Crashplan and paid for crashplan:
again, it might not be a perfect solution or an appropriate solution but it's an option and better than nothing, imo.
Robert
I understand that! Fortunately, Crashplan doesn't cost a dime for the way I'm using it. No monthly fees at all since it's going from one computer to another computer. Nothing is being stored in the cloud. I think you have to pay a fee if you want to store backups on the cloud and/or That setup is for my parents. My own setup differs.
At home, I have a Drobo connected to my Mac Pro. We both have Crashplan. As a friend, her HP laptop backs up over the network to my tower. I've told Crashplan to store her backups on the Drobo and to limit the storage available to her backups to 500 gigs. The rest of the storage is allocated to a backup of my media and for a revolving storage of my personal backups.
No probs so far. No cost either. Here are the details for the difference between free Crashplan and paid for crashplan:
again, it might not be a perfect solution or an appropriate solution but it's an option and better than nothing, imo.
Robert