5/11/2023 0 Comments Crashplan vs spideroakWith both of them, you can upload or download your personal user data to the company's data centers. With CrashPlan or SpiderOak, there's no requirement to save your personal user data on other people's PCs or servers. If you run into trouble with SpiderOak's two-factor service, then you could get locked out of your master account permanently without much technical help from the company since it is not officially supported yet. SpiderOak offers two-factor authentication, but it is in beta testing phase and it is not officially supported. The most important security feature that CrashPlan+ customers do have is the capability to generate a random custom encryption key to enable two-factor authentication. Look, I found that more customers are switching from SpiderOak to CrashPlan because it's a much better value and the value added services are unique features and capabilities that SpiderOak customers don't have access to yet. SpiderOak doesn't offer an initial seed backup service yet. This greatly speeds up the time to do the initial data backup, but it costs $130.00 USD except if you are a member of the US Armed Forces in which case it is free of charge. Once CrashPlan gets their hard disk drive with your data, they upload it to your account within CrashPlan Central. A key advantage is that each CrashPlan+ customer can purchase their initial seed backup service whereby the company will send you a 1.0 TB hard disk drive for you to do your initial data backup to their hard disk drive and you get two-way express shipment and delivery. The other benefit to CrashPlan's Family Plan is that each PC (up to 10 in total) gets unlimited bandwidth and data storage. This way, the other users don't have access to one another's data within the primary account. If you require the maximum amount of privacy, then choose CrashPlan's Family Plan. This is important to know ahead of time and it is not commonly advertised on SpiderOak's website. They can see, access, share, and download or upload data from one PC to another PC under the primary SpiderOak account. When you download and install SpiderOak on each PC, then all of the users have access to one another's data within the primary account. SpiderOak does not implement this level of privacy among multiple PCs under a primary account yet. In other words, the unique GID for each PC isolates the data from other CrashPlan+ users under the primary account so it stays safe, private, and secure. Once each PC is assigned a unique GID, then the other CrashPlan+ protected PCs do not have access to one another's data. So, you download and install CrashPlan+ and you log into your primary account and you enter the license key on each PC. The GID is associated with each specific PC. If you choose either a monthly or multi-year Family Plan, then each PC (up to 10 in total) gets its' own unique GID. Next, you pay for your CrashPlan+ subscription plan and you get a license key. Then, you download and install the software application. You create a free account using your e-mail address and master password on the CrashPlan website. If you have a few PCs that need to be backed up and select data restorations, then CrashPlan+ is a better choice. CrashPlan+ offers a Family Plan that permits between two to ten PCs to backup and restore their data to and from CrashPlan Central and they offer monthly and multi-year plans for both single PC and Family Plans. This is important information for GNU/Linux users considering CrashPlan versus SpiderOak. CrashPlan+ offers more value than SpiderOak and it won't slow down your GNU/Linux desktop or notebook PC. I would recommend that you try out CrashPlan+ and I created a thread about it here in the open chat sub-forum. Backing up and restoring data are a cinch and quick. The GNU/Linux desktop client is features rich and it is easy to use plus it is highly responsive. It's much faster than SpiderOak and I can control the amount of CPU and RAM consumption. I pay $5.99 USD per month for a single PC and an unlimited amount of bandwidth and data plan. It's much more affordable and it provides several different tiered plans. They got rid of it because it made them lose money. I used to have the Spideroak World Backup Day unlimited bandwidth and data plan for $125.00 USD annually. I found the GNU/Linux desktop client to be unresponsive for long periods of time especially as I uploaded more data. As you get closer to filling up your allotted data plan, it gets much more expensive to upgrade to the next higher tier and it consumes much more CPU and RAM resources. The other thing that I don't like about it is that customers have to purchase a data pool. The biggest problem with SpiderOak is that it is a resource hog especially when you upload a large amount of data to it. I used SpiderOak, but I found that it was really slow and sluggish too.
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