{"id":11109,"date":"2015-04-29T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:28:11","slug":"why-i-prefer-crashplan-for-online-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/why-i-prefer-crashplan-for-online-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Prefer CrashPlan for Online Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2915637\/why-i-prefer-crashplan-for-online-backups.html\">Joe Kissell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2915637\/why-i-prefer-crashplan-for-online-backups.html\">\n<p>CrashPlan developer Code 42 publicly stated a few years ago that a native Mac app was in the works, but for some reason it has so far failed to materialize. Instead&mdash;perhaps as an interim measure while the native app is being perfected&mdash;CrashPlan now bundles its own copy of Java. That means you can run CrashPlan on your Mac without having to download Oracle&rsquo;s Java&mdash;it behaves just like a stand-alone app. More importantly, CrashPlan&rsquo;s built-in version of Java is self-contained, inaccessible to other Java apps and to websites, which are where most Java security exploits originate. And it doesn&rsquo;t include the adware.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>First, [Backblaze] file restoration drives me nuts. You log in to your account on the Backblaze website and select the file(s) you want to restore, and what you get back is a Zip file containing those files&mdash;in a replica of their original folder structure. So, if you restore a single file that was stored 10 levels deep in a series of nested folders, your expanded Zip file will be a series of 10 nested folders with your file inside the last one. After digging down to it, you&rsquo;ll have to drag it manually to the corresponding spot on your disk. That&rsquo;s a minor inconvenience for one file, but a huge hassle if you&rsquo;re restoring lots of files from different locations.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the CrashPlan app gives you the option to restore any file to its original location&mdash;either overwriting or renaming any file of the same name. Which is exactly what I want, 90 percent of the time. Or, if you prefer, you can restore files to your Desktop or any other arbitrary folder.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, although Carbonite is pretty good on Windows, the Mac version lacks a number of features I consider essential, including <a href=\"http:\/\/support.carbonite.com\/articles\/en_US\/Support_Article\/Personal-Pro-Mac-Restoring-Previous-File-Versions\">versioning<\/a> (storing old versions of backed-up files after the original changes).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kissell: CrashPlan developer Code 42 publicly stated a few years ago that a native Mac app was in the works, but for some reason it has so far failed to materialize. Instead&mdash;perhaps as an interim measure while the native app is being perfected&mdash;CrashPlan now bundles its own copy of Java. 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