I'll probably take the small business route for at least the first year, but my current end data is this January.

I haven't received an answer, but I assume using their software to backup to a USB drive in parallel with backing up to their cloud goes away. When I had to replace a non-system disk a few months ago, I restored overnight with no worry about ISP bandwidth limits. This I may miss the most.

It doesn't appear so. From their Features page here: https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/features/

Scroll down to the "Desktop applications" section - the screenshot shows a local backup to an external USB drive.

Edit: I just scrolled down even farther and found this:
I think it's just the computer-to-computer backup that goes away. Which is kind of a bummer - that was a cool feature to get data off site without putting it in CrashPlan's cloud.

One thing I hadn't realized is that CrashPlan quietly ended its offering where they mail you a drive for a large restore. If the poop hits the fan one day and your local backups aren't sufficient, you'll be downloading your entire backup from the cloud. Backblaze not only still offers this, but it's free, assuming you mail back their drive.

Sorry, I meant the free version of that, without a subscription. I'm sure I can continue it if I do the Small Business plan. But in the past you could use the software for free to just backup to a local USB drive with no cloud storage. I don't see Carbonite, Backblaze, or other with that, so if I switch, I'm left without the ability to do a local restore.

I'm not sure on that. But I can confirm that if you are using the CrashPlan Small Business client, you are not able to back up even to local drives if you don't have an active subscription. So I would think this points your hand eventually being forced. Certainly the CrashPlan personal client isn't going to be maintained going forward. Even if it continues to work and allows you to back up locally without an active subscription, you are basically left hoping there will never be issues with the app that require updates to fix. That's not really a position I'd want to be in with my backups. And you can't switch to the SMB client without paying...

Mozy Home backup allows simultaneous cloud and local backups.

http://mozy.com/product/mozy/personal

Here's an article on it, which recommends Backblaze.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017...ats-next-best/

Just wanted to bump this thread to see if anyone has made an official switch from Crashplan to another provider. I will probably transition to BackBlaze, but I'd love to hear about any other good alternatives.

For what it's worth, I've had no issues with Backblaze so far. And the monthly cost is less expensive than I expected, too. ^

I took the 1 year of 75% off Crashplan's Small Business service. $25/year and both cloud and local backup. A year from now I'll need to make the decision - hopefully alternatives have evolved by then.

I'm happy with my move from Crashplan to Backblaze. Your post reminded me that I've never actually tested a restore! So I just did one from a file that was created last week. The interface takes a bit of getting used to, but it works.

I moved a few clients from a CP server to backblaze. It was a pretty easy move (20 laptop/desktops) and the backups are faster. It's really pretty cheap too, 50$ a year a machine.

It's doing offsite and onsite backups (to a local LAN synology device) for the same price.

With Mozy's migration to Carbonite, can anyone answer my question here? Thanks.