@travisdh1 said in With Crashplan Free/Home going away...:
So I'm thinking up ideas to replace Crashplan as a backup method for my and family computers here.
First thought was, just use NextCloud and the sync client to get files up on a server.
The other thing I'm considering is Unison: Unison.
Would Veem free work?
Any other recommendations?
Planning to backup the entire virtual environment to Backblaze B2.
The only problem with using Nextcloud is that it doesn't have the scale that CrashPlan had. If my files get deleted for some reason, and my Nextcloud server gets hosed, all my files are gone forever. That was an infinitesimally small risk with CrashPlan.
I wonder how well Unison would work for large volumes. It sounds like it would synchronize the files across the hosts but there must be a point where fragmentation becomes an issue, especially if a high number of files change and must be synchronized. And this still doesn't seem to address the malware encryption risk as it would simply sync the encrypted files across the volumes.