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If I put a private key on my backups it's because I want the only place where they are encrypted and decrypted to be my local machine. Bit hard to select what you want to backup exactly, backblaze seems to want to choose that for you.The price was the same as CrashPlan ($50 / year).Restore of the files requires decrypting the backup on their server.Key is stored on their service (encrypted with your password).The private key encryption of the backup seemed strange.There were a few things holding me back though:

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With $50 / year for the CrashPlan subscription, I was hoping to find a slightly cheaper alternative.Īfter looking at some advice on the Internet, two options seemed to be recommended a lot:īackblaze was an easy drop-in replacement for CrashPlan: create an account > install the application > log in with your account.

With CrashPlan gone, it was time to look at alternatives.

To go around the problems of backing up files that are in use, I try to make sure I only plug in the backup disk when I'm doing nothing else on the computer.

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In windows 10, find file history by going to 'Settings > Update & security > Backup':

Restoring is easy, you can browse through dated snapshots of your files and restore them.

Doing the backup is a matter of plugging in the external disk.

Windows will remind you if it's been a while since you backed up.

You get versions of the files over time.

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The advantages, over a manual copy paste, are: It does not use Windows' 'VSS' (Volume Shadow Copy) so it has issues backing up files that are open and in use.Better backup tools would store only the differences between the first and second version of the file.If a large file has changed since the last backup, it puts an additional full copy of the file on the backup destination.Not perfect, but better than doing an occasional copy paste manually. It's not perfect but it's easy to use and comes with Windows 10. Backup to external diskįor this, now, I am using a Windows 10 feature called 'File History'. The other two may require some more detail. You plug in the mobile devices using the USB cable and copy paste the files to the laptop's disk. The first one is reasonably straight-forward. Backup these files to an external service.Backup these files to a external hard disk.Copy pictures from the mobile devices (tablets, phones.In my old strategy I only did the first and the last point. and on a device in a physically different location (for example a service in the cloud).on a seperate device (for example an external hard-disk).Given a device that stores valuable data. So all other users were forced to look elsewhere for a backup solution.Ī good time to revise the backup strategy. But CrashPlan decided to focus on business customers only. I used to use CrashPlan to back up my files to an external service. But also some other things I want to get back if my hard-drive crashes or gets erased by ransomware. The most important ones are - of course - pictures of loved ones. I have some files on my computer that I do not want to loose.

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