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Old Mar 17, 2013 | 8:49 pm
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Crashplan
Originally Posted by CPRich
...Subscribe to Crashplan - $60/yr to backup data offsite.
Thank you for the mention of Crashplan, CPRich!

I was unaware of Crashplan, but it definitely looks good. A FAQ claims unlimited online storage and no upload throttling.

I use Carbonite, which also has an "unlimited" storage plan but which throttles uploads after the first 200GB. It took me about 2 years to get ~450GB uploaded to Carbonite.

The major downside of Crashplan, as I (a non-user yet) see it, is that you can't download an individual file from your uploaded archive. [Update: As per gfunkdave and SNA1K, you can download individual files. That is great news! I began the free 30-day trial period a day and a half ago, and (after setting my computer to never sleep) it looks like Crashplan is uploading a little less than 20GB per 24 hours.]
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