I'm tearing my hair out here, so I think I'm going to have to ditch CrashPlan and figure something else out.

 

Things I don't like about it:

- It eats (and leaks) memory like crazy

- Runs on Java, so very CPU intensive

- You have to run two separate dockers for the core app and the GUI

- You have to use RDC to access a virtual machine to open the GUI

- The RDC session regularly fails to connect or load, requiring restarting or even reinstalling the docker.

- Now the GUI has decided to disconnect itself and short of reinstalling everything and re-uploading 1.7TB of data I'm stuck

 

Yes, I need an online backup for my unRAID server - it's used as the local backup for several computers and there's stuff on there I really, really can't afford to lose to theft/fire/property damage. I don't care that it takes months to upload the initial backup seed, as everything else is incremental, but because of the sheer volume of data I need something with an unlimited storage option. Because it's on unRAID I need linux support, and because it's a home server not a business item I'd like to keep cost reasonable.

 

CrashPlan did seem to be ideal, but it's so damned flaky that it's just not a viable ongoing option for me. And so my question to the community is this:

 

Can anyone recommend me an alternative solution? I'm even tempted to resort to buying a big USB drive and rsyncing the critical stuff, then storing it in a fire-proof safe or something, but an online solution would be so much neater...

 

Thanks in advance!

Nick

I have been using CrashPlan for about 10 months and have experienced the difficulties as well that the last two updates created however it is possible to get a client to run on a Windows PC and connect to the Docker Container.

 

I agree that memory usage is high especially on large backup sets. Recommendation is 1 GB per 1 TB or 1 million files. I would expect that the real-time monitoring of files is what’s causing this. I have not seen any indication of memory leaks on my system.

 

Alternatives is deepening on your needs, is it an offsite storage location or a backup service?

 

I haven’t seen any real alternatives to backup solutions that can run on then unRAID OS or in a container that CrashPlan can.

 

Currently I have installed CrashPlan on an Ubuntu VM on my unRAID system. I have only experimented with it for a week but it looks promising. The setup is not difficult but there are a few tweaks needed to get it up and running.