Cloud-based backup provider CrashPlan—which our friends at the Wirecutter recommended in 2015—announced earlier this week that it was getting out of the consumer backup game to focus on its enterprise offerings. Customers have until October 22, 2018 to find alternative backup solutions.
CrashPlan’s service was compelling because it was inexpensive—$60 per year for a single computer—offered unlimited storage, and had a good (if not great) client for both backup and restore operations. It’s recommending its customers switch to either its small business plan, which doubles the price to $120, or to Carbonite. Carbonite has a $60 plan that’s comparable (and migrating CrashPlan users get a 50 percent discount on that price), if a little less convenient (it won’t automatically back up files greater than 4GB, though they can be manually backed up), but has a functional deficit relative to CrashPlan.
