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The cloud based backup service managed by codefortytwo software.

Crashplan is a Online Data Backup service provided and maintained by codefortytwo software. There are three major division of the Crashplan service:

  1. Crashplan
    • For home use
  2. Crashplan PRO
    • For small business use
  3. Crashplan PROe
    • For enterprise use

However all three have a few common points.

  • Provides support for multi-platform devices (Windows, Mac, Linux)
  • Data can be backed up online or local drives
  • Data transfers are encrypted
  • Data is transferred from client machine in a continuous state.
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Why is Crashplan so slow to upload my computer's files?

I just installed Crashplan on my MBP running OS X Lion. Crashplan is extremely slow in uploading all my files. Sitting overnight, it only has backed up about 4GB out of 450GB. Crashplan itself shows that it is uploading at about 750Kbps to 800Kbps.…
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What files, file types, and folders to exclude from user folder backup?

When backing up a user and shared users folder using the backup software of your choice on the operating system of your choice what files, file types, and folders do you exclude from the backup?
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How to configure QoS for CrashPlan, which connects on HTTPS port, without affecting all other HTTPS traffic?

CrashPlan appears to upload stuff on the standard HTTPS port 443. Is there any way to allocate it bulk QoS priority separately from all other HTTPS traffic, or am I completely stuffed? I'm using DD-WRT.
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Is there a way to remove a deleted file from my backup set without first restoring it?

I've got a directory in my /home// folder that holds log dumps. A couple of days ago I decided to do some housecleaning and deleted the logs. Just now, I realized that Crashplan was backing them up (exactly like it's supposed to). They'll get…
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Crashplan + TrueCrypt - Overkill?

Crashplan already has an option to encrypt the data. And if selected, this stores the encrypted file on the server. Truecrypt certainly has lot more options, but for basic usage, wouldn't CrashPlan's encryption suffice? Update: After trying…
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Will crashplan offsite backup work if crashplan goes out of business?

I really like the idea of using crashplan for it's offsite backup to another computer. However, seeing as how these types of services come and go seemingly daily or change plan pricing like Mozy did recently, will crashplan continue to work if they…
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How do i restore directly from a Crashplan backup destination hard drive on another computer?

I don't know if my title managed to describe my question, so here is an example: Suppose i have two home computers A and B both running e.g. windows 7. B is my home server, and it has an extra hard drive just for files (no OS). Lets say I do my…
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Force reaping of java zombie processes on OS X 10.7

I have CrashPlan running on my MacBook Pro, and it went a little haywire. Essentially, it caused a fork bomb. Fortunately, I had an open Terminal window and was able to run this command: sudo launchctl unload…
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Can I recover from a complete OS X hard drive crash using CrashPlan Central?

The CrashPlan web site states: Once your files are backed up, CrashPlan continuously checks that your files are 100% healthy and ready to restore when you need them. If it finds any problems, CrashPlan fixes them. Does this mean if my…
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Volume Shadow Copy Service - Security Permission Error

While trying to diagnose some other unrelated issues on my PC I noticed my windows error log is being written to every second (I am not exaggerating, there are 60 entries per minute every minute) with an error message about the Volume Shadow Copy…
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How to backup up with CrashPlan to Google Drive?

Can you use the free version of CrashPlan to backup your hard drive, or most likely a subset thereof, to Google Drive, assuming of course you have enough available space on Google Drive? Are there any "tricks" required for this?
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Speed up CrashPlan by transferring backups between computers using external HD?

I've just set up CrashPlan between three computers in the family (in three different locations) so that they all backup to each other over the internet. The problem is that the backup files are huge and for the first backup (where everything needs…
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Does CrashPlan allow upload via FTP?

I've got the free version of CrashPlan and I am backing up my computers to each other. My web hosting provider allows me to use 50GB online storage for backup, and I'd like to integrate that with CrashPlan but I don't see an option to do so. Did I…
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How can I reduce the frequency of "synchronizing block information" phases in CrashPlan PROe?

How can I reduce the frequency of "synchronizing block information" phases in CrashPlan PROe? It typically takes hours to complete, seems to occur every two days or so, and in the meantime files don't get backed up. I use CrashPlan PROe 3.7.0 with…
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how to fix bit rot / back up strategy

I'm planning to backup my personal file on a NAS (which will use the btrfs filesystem). It's a cheap nas so unfortunately no ECC ram in it. In my backup strategy the will be other copies of the files (online) by using service like Crashplan and Mega…
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