October 11, 20178 yr Hey All, Hoping someone has a solution to this or maybe I just misunderstood the crash plan going away email. I have been running the crash plan docker on my unraid server and backing up other computers to my unraid host. I just got an email saying Chashplan home was going away and you needed to move to crash plan business. I am curious how this affects my though as I am not using their cloud storage just backing up to my unraid host. I looked at syncthign and not 100% sure that will fit the build. Basically I am just looking for a simple ....select files to backup and run at 4am solution. I don't need immediate sync across multiple devices or anything. Just want a simple way to backup local or remote devices to my unraid server at home. Crashplan was doing a fine job but I am not sure where I site with the termination of the home service. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
October 12, 20178 yr Correct. Friend to friend backups are going away as well unfortunately. Wish someone would make an app to replace it that would do the same with ease. Would definitely make some good money for it.
October 12, 20178 yr To be blunt, no not really. I am in roughly the same boat as you, and many others here in that I made extensive use of the peer to peer backup functionality of Crashplan. I have been searching for a while now but to my knowledge there is nothing that provides the same level (or even a comparable level) of functionality as Crashplan did. Syncthing does have the ease of setup/connecting computers that crashplan did, but it is most definitely not a backup solution (sync is not backup, and its versioning capabilities hardly count). Borg Backup is another possibility but it does not provide an easy to use setup for peer to peer backups. Also its deduplication capabilities are less than ideal for multiple machines. Duplicacy is a new player in the world of backup tools. It appears to have great deduplication capabilities, but the software is still very new and as with Borg there is no easy p2p. Also Duplicacy uses a repo/snapshot model for backup, which so far as i can tell doesnt currently allow for the file versioning granularity that i need. For now I am continuing my search until my Crashplan subscription expires, using syncthing as a stopgap solution to get remote files to my unRAID server where crashplan can back them up.
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