I'm on OSX. I was a long time CrashPlan user until on multiple occassions my stored data would simply vanish (e.g. yesterday it was 300GB, today it's 3GB and everything needs to be forcefully reuploaded for the next week). Spent quite a bit of time with support, sending logs and such, with no real resolution. And only because I happened to look at the UI was I aware of the issue. That didn't leave me comfortable at all, given I normally didn't pay attention once it was running.
I then looked at BackBlaze briefly. Same class of product as CrashPlan (set and forget), but I immediately ran into bugs (submitted, confirmed by them), was put off, still raw from CrashPlan... Not a fair assessment to be sure.
Landed on Arq. It's not without its annoyances, but it does do the job well enough, including the recovery process from Glacier which is pretty tedious. I like that Arq can easily map backups sets to different providers, like putting frequently changing stuff that I do restore as a convenience into S3 or Google Drive, instead of Glacier. My most important (smallish) files live on multiple services.
On a more general level, I like that I'm deciding exactly what I'm willing to pay for and how it's managed. I get the AWS bills. If I want infinite backups on this set, and the just the last week on a different set, no problem. The tool does my bidding, and does it smartly (deduplication, etc.)
Lastly, the Arq author is accessible. The whole experience has brought me from skeptical to fairly satisfied.
I then looked at BackBlaze briefly. Same class of product as CrashPlan (set and forget), but I immediately ran into bugs (submitted, confirmed by them), was put off, still raw from CrashPlan... Not a fair assessment to be sure.
Landed on Arq. It's not without its annoyances, but it does do the job well enough, including the recovery process from Glacier which is pretty tedious. I like that Arq can easily map backups sets to different providers, like putting frequently changing stuff that I do restore as a convenience into S3 or Google Drive, instead of Glacier. My most important (smallish) files live on multiple services.
On a more general level, I like that I'm deciding exactly what I'm willing to pay for and how it's managed. I get the AWS bills. If I want infinite backups on this set, and the just the last week on a different set, no problem. The tool does my bidding, and does it smartly (deduplication, etc.)
Lastly, the Arq author is accessible. The whole experience has brought me from skeptical to fairly satisfied.