![]() From the Crashplan website.Ĭrashplan states that a user can expect to upload 10 GB/day and only if you leave you computer on all day without letting it sleep. After looking through Crashplan help pages, I discovered they switched their policy to throttle users:Ĭrashplan explicitly states to expect no more than 10 GB/day of uploads. But even playing with the settings I wasn’t getting any improvement. Given that my internet connection was very fast (uploads of 500+ Mbits/s), I double checked my Crashplan settings to make sure I didn’t have a setup error. In fact, I would describe it as glacially slow and at times the client would report that it would be months before my backup completed:Įstimated time for Crashplan backup to complete. By the time I had everything organized and restarted backing up, I had about 160GB of new image files to upload.Īfter restarting the Crashplan backup, I began checking my progress and discovered it was proceeding very slowly. However, as I was redoing my setup, I fell a bit behind in my cloud backups. With Crashplan you can move files to a new location without having to reupload everything. I recently moved my image library to a new set of drives (a thunderbolt RAID enclosure). ![]() So I chose Crashplan and stuck with it despite a rather clunky client that was a resource hog. There’s no way to download the missing files in the remaining time before you hit the 30 day limit. Imagine you go on a three week trip and then come back home to find your drives gone due to theft. Alternative providers, like Backblaze, required you to connect your external drive every 30 days or the backups would be deleted. Most importantly, they did not have any requirement that I keep my drives connected. Crashplan was unlimited and they would backup files on my external drives (where I keep my image library). I don’t remember exactly how long it took me to upload everything but it was probably a month or two.Īt the time there was no competitive alternative. The upload wasn’t super speedy but it wasn’t terrible either. It seemed to work well and at the start I had a only few TB of data. I signed up in 2015, initially on the home program for $5/month and then switched to the small business plan for $10/month. I have been a longtime user of Crashplan’s cloud backup service. Just a matter now of finding how to change that setting in a way that works and is less fiddly.Crashplan Throttling and Switching to Backblaze Anyway, already a lot of thanks for setting me on the right track. ![]() The online help (if I can even call it that) also is not trustworthy as it says the commands are backupset while in actual fact they are t. The command "t update dataDeDupAutoMaxFileSizeForWan=1" doesn't seem to be valid. ![]() So far I'm not managing to do the update via the GUI. Nonetheless I see this for the old set : dataDeDupAutoMaxFileSizeForWan=1 While I see this for the new set : dataDeDupAutoMaxFileSizeForWan=1000000000 (In fact, it looks like XML with the, = etc all encoded as ASCII, but I cannot use that in the Reddit editor apparently). This allows me to do perform a command named 't show' which shows all settings of every backup set, but in a very hard to read fashion. In the GUI, you can go to extra features with SHIFT+CTRL+C. If so, it clearly has to do with creating new backup sets.ĮDIT: I still have not figured out how to properly manage those hidden settings, but the good news is that I can see/confirm that there is a difference in settings between de DeDup setting of the existing Set vs the new Set. Next test will be that I'll include those directories in one of my existing sets and see if they work faster there. So it doesn't look like it has to do with dedup. This set does have files that compress pretty well. Added another one by means of test, and also that one is incredibly slow. I removed the slow backup set again as it kept being that slow. Thanks, will first try a few other things for troubleshoot sake and then look at this option.
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