Here's what we like about CrashPlan over Mozy:
- easier to understand user interface
- no lengthy delays selecting or changing which files are backed up. On a home theatre PC with 23,000 files and 125 Gb I would open Mozy and go get a coffee before I could start making changes. Then when you pressed OK it was another long delay. No such long delays with Crashplan. We had a similar even longer delay in selecting files to backup with MozyPro (business version) at a customer site on their file server. We had to give up and put the customer on Storage Guardian which works fine but is way too complex for most small businesses to manage.
- Windows Servers can be backed up without any additional cost or restrictions with Crashplan. We must admit that we were cheating by using MozyHome and running a batch routine to copy files from the file server to a workstation to then be backed up in the cloud on Mozy. Crashplan runs fine on our old Windows Server 2003 file server directly.
- 3 way backup/social backup that's easy to setup. Have a brother with some extra hard drive space? You can use Crashplan for free and back up your data on his computer and his on yours over the internet. Inside our office we backup both to Crashplan online and to a large hard drive on one of the workstations. We do this because restoring from a local drive copy will always be faster than downloading it from the web.
