While Carbonite supports versioning (so that you can restore older copies of your files) and a personal encryption key, it only does this when using its Windows client. 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. It is recommending its customers switch to either its small business plan, which doubles the price to $120, or to Carbonite. Customers have until Octoto find alternative backup solutions.ĬrashPlan'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.

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.

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