Acronis, IDrive and Mozy charge on a per-gigabyte basis but are less restrictive about what you can save. Of the four remaining products, Carbonite offers unlimited storage but restricts the types of files you can back up. CrashPlan offers AES-256 encryption and a private key option. Deleted files are kept available, unless you specifically ask that they be truly deleted. Linux devices can be backed up, which is rare among the services tested. Pricing is $10 per month per device, but you get unlimited storage and no file-type restrictions, and any external hard drives connected to a device are backed up at no extra charge. You'll read about Carbonite in this review here are some pertinent things to know about CrashPlan for Small Business. In its place, it is recommending that existing customers migrate to CrashPlan for Small Business or to its “exclusive partner,” Carbonite. 22, Code42 began phasing out CrashPlan for Home and the product will stop working on Oct.

We removed that review from the story, but we do provide some details about CrashPlan’s surviving small-business product below. I also tested a fifth product, Code42’s CrashPlan for Home, but after the review was done and before publication, Code42 announced that it is phasing out CrashPlan for Home and will stop selling that product as of Oct. It’s good protection at a good price, with no hardware required, and has the ability to share saved files wherever you go.”įor this evaluation, I looked at products from four top vendors in the online backup world, according to Goodwin: Mozy, Carbonite, Acronis and IDrive.

Phil Goodwin, research director of IDC’s Storage Systems and Software group, says, “Many small business owners use consumer backup services to protect their company’s data. I’m not alone in recognizing the benefits of online backup.

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