CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market

Re:CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market by rdtsc on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:43PM (#15074718)

* Do they have a Linux client? -No

* Do they allow you to recover deleted files? -No (I have used this a few times, it saved some of the digitized family photos which I blew away with an rsync --delete flag)

* Do they offer secondary products that relate to their primary offering? Ok, I can read that as they are stretching too thin not focusing on backups enough. Will they announce they are dropping out of consumer backups and moving on to B2 as their main product?

* Is their software well-built/designed, or is it annoying and bloated? - Currently is doesn't run at all on my systems.

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Re:CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market by skrause on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:05PM (#15074929)

* Do they allow a data restore without you giving them your encryption password? - No: https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html

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Re:CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market by rdtsc on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:14PM (#15082719)

Ha, that was surprising indeed:

" we decrypt your data on our secure restore servers and we then zip it and send "

That seems shady to me

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