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CrashPlan is backup software that allows users to back up data both locally and online, for example, to acquaintances or on the paid CrashPlan Central. CrashPlan is available in a free version for personal use and in a commercial version called CrashPlan for personal and corporate use.

Operation

CrashPlan is written in Java data backup software for PCs, Macs, Linux and Solaris. It allows a platform-independent backup of data, for example, from a PC to a Linux machine.

The software allows you to backup any, even just open data and programs on both local and achievable in the LAN drives, as well as on distant, accessible via the internet memory releases. The latter can, for example, are located on a computer of a friend or for a fee from the manufacturer of CrashPlan.

The backup is incremental and versioned using deduplication, ie Only changed data is transmitted and amendments are repealed versioned. For example, it is possible to recover data in the state in which they have been a year ago.

The volume of data can be unlimited high for paid accounts. It is neither carried out a limitation in file size even in the data volume or bandwidth, and by his own admission in the FAQ it should remain so for the foreseeable future.

Files will be encrypted and stored. By default, CrashPlan to 128 -bit Blowfish encryption, with CrashPlan optional 448-bit.

CrashPlan offers for iPhone / iPad / Android / Windows Phone on an app that allows mobile access to the secured data.