March 23, 201610 yr Hello I recently had a RAID faillure on my old server and lost allmost all data, nothing very important though. With my new unRAID machine I want to use Backblaze or Crashplan as they are fairly cheap. Only thing holding me back at the moment are the reported slow up- and download rates from both services. Is there any one from Europe using one of these services and could give me a short feedback? Cheers
March 23, 201610 yr I am using Crashplan, and it works really well. I backed up 1 TB of data in about a week when I used the crashplan docker. I used to run FreeNAS and have a seperate computer back up, then it took a month to back up all the data. I did not find out why, but I am getting great speeds on the crashplan docker now at least! I think there is a free trial if crashplan, test that? There is no docker availble for BackBlaze as far I know, and no Linux client. So you need to run a VM to back up your NAS then.
March 23, 201610 yr Author Oh I didnt know about the free trial, just set it up and currently uploading. Total remaining: 12 months... Uploading currently with 1.9 Mbit/s allthough I own a 300 Mbit/s connection What speeds are you achieving? Cheers
March 23, 201610 yr I am using crashplan but using it to backup to a backup unraid system on my own... Dockers running on both machines.. Works great, is free, but ofcourse you need to invest in a completely seperate machine..
March 23, 201610 yr Oh I didnt know about the free trial, just set it up and currently uploading. Total remaining: 12 months... Uploading currently with 1.9 Mbit/s allthough I own a 300 Mbit/s connection What speeds are you achieving? Cheers I dont remember speeds. Are you using the docker, or a seperate pc to backup? What are your max cpu usage in settings? How many TB are you backing up?
March 23, 201610 yr Using the docker right now, CPU at roughly 4-10% and roughly 7TB What are your max cpu usage in settings? Try to set it to 90% (Inside the docker)
March 25, 201610 yr Northern Europe here, just trying out Crashplan (free trial) using the docker version so my short feedback might not be worth that much yet... Pretty consistent 4-6 megabits/s speeds to their servers throughout the first eight hours of upload. My connection is a 100/100 megabit/s connection and not much was competing for bandwidth during those hours, so probably as good as it gets for me. Haven't tried restoring anything yet. Uploading everything on the server will take more or like "forever". I would of course have preferred 4-6 megabytes/s over 4-6 megabits/s, but if it works reliably in the background I might just continue using Crashplan anyway. The vast majority of data on the server would just be inconvenient to lose, not disastrous, so a reasonably cheap cloud backup is very tempting.
March 29, 201610 yr Author I've peaked at 32MB/s after setting the CPU usage to 90%. You might want to give that a shot
April 2, 201610 yr I've peaked at 32MB/s after setting the CPU usage to 90%. You might want to give that a shot My numbers were including upped allowed CPU usage unfortunately. And backing up the same set of terribly incompressible files to another computer on the LAN with CrashPlan is at least 30-40 times faster than it was backing up to CrashPlan Central, so the bottleneck is likely somewhere between my LAN and CrashPlan's servers.
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