
Backblaze only supports Windows and Mac, and has been around since 2008.CrashPlan stores your data in their secure data centers located around the world. Your data gets encrypted with 448-bit encryption the entire time, from start to finish, and it’s encrypted at rest-it’s only decrypted when it’s downloaded again. CrashPlan explains its backup process here, but it’s pretty straightforward: it grabs a new file, compresses it, encrypts it, then sends it to the backup destination.

CrashPlan has long been our ( and your) go-to backup solution. CrashPlan supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Offsite backups are essentially an insurance policy for your files and the last thing you want to do is hand them over to some startup company with no history or shoddy encryption. When you’re looking for an online-based storage solution, two of the main points to consider are reliability and encryption.

Do It Now.Īt least once a month, some friend or family member asks me how to recover data from a failed hard… Read more The Contenders There's No Excuse for Not Backing Up Your Computer.
