Backup Solution - in the cloud!!

[barber]

I know its a bit off subject but i'm getting more and more home/remote users due to the business developing around the globe. Does anyone have any experience of using any cloud backup solutions on the mac? I've used dropbox myself and played with crashplan but interested to gauge peoples experiences.

[corbinmharris]

We are looking at CrashPlan with a hybrid approach to backup 200 Mac users world wide and a number of servers. Also Mozy (owned by EMC). Ruled out Backblaze since the don't really do server backups and don't have the option for Active Directory integration.

[jhalvorson]

We use CrashPlan PROe at work with internally hosted storage on their appliance and one Mac Pro as a destination. I use CrashPlan at home on our household systems and parent's computers.

Caution, filesync with dropbox isn't the same as having a backup.

[barber]

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[barber]

Thanks for your input

Found this reviews site

http://mac-online-backup-services-review.toptenreviews.com/crashplan-review.html

Are there any other CONS of CrashPlan (i'm leaning towards them) that you've seen?

[stevewood]

Remember, that article is talking about CrashPlan, which is the consumer version of their software. You'd be looking at either CrashPlanPro or CrashPlanPROe. I believe that both (I know PROe does) tie into your AD for authentication, which should take care of that "Con" that is listed in the review.

We use PROe here. We run the server on an Ubuntu VM with internal storage. We haven't looked at moving any of it to the cloud, but we may in the future.

[nessts]

HP has autonomy connected backup http://www.cloudmore.com/services/backup-and-security/autonomy-connected-backup/ Used to be IronMountain backup.

[nessts]

http://services.connected.com/autonomy/
meant to post this too.

[jhalvorson]

Cons: It's not a bare metal backup solution and the Mac client still requires Java 6. If you talk to them, ask the about this requirement.

I forgot to mention that our Windows and Mac clients backup to the CrashPlan appliance. The Mac Pro destination is setup in it different "organization" and I use it to backup my JSS, master CasperShare, and Mac file servers. It really works well.

[calum_carey]

+1 for crashplanpro

[gachowski]

crashplanpro over autonomy anytime,

last I checked autonomy still builds their Mac installer on the server and it's not mac os X so they can't sign the .pkg. We asked their support about this before X.8 was released and they had no answer and no supported way to install the .pkg. I had to script the installs, it was not good. We moved to crashplanpro and deployed to all our clients, with almost no "custom" work. Very nice setup and great support.