CrashPlan

CrashPlan
CrashPlan
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Developer(s) Code 42 Software, Inc.
Initial release 2007 (2007)
Stable release 3.0.3 / December 7, 2010; 10 months ago (2010-12-07)
Development status Active
Operating system Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/08, Mac OS 10.4+, Linux Kernel 2.6, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
Available in Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
Type Backup software and Online backup service
License Proprietary
Website crashplan.com

CrashPlan is backup software that allows Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris users to back up their data to an offsite data center,[1] computers belonging to friends and family,[2] as well as to attached drives / shared folders.[3] There is a free version (for non-datacenter backups) and CrashPlan+ which is for backing up to CrashPlan's servers. Both versions allow users to back up data automatically. Files are encrypted using 448-bit Blowfish (128-bit with the free version) encryption for CrashPlan+ before transmission.

CrashPlan+ users can access their files stored online with free iOS and Android applications. As updates occur to files, changes are tracked automatically and updated with a singe gesture.

When used on a compatible Windows operating system, CrashPlan has the ability to make backups of files that are locked and in-use by other programs running on the computer by utilizing Volume Shadow Copy.

See also

References

  1. ^ How Safe Is Your Data In "The Cloud"?
  2. ^ Review: Back up your mom with Crashplan
  3. ^ Tidbits Review: CrashPlan Adds Direct-to-Disk Backups

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