{"id":85941,"date":"2018-10-23T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=85941"},"modified":"2021-08-09T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:46:15","slug":"migrating-crashplan-arq-backup-b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/migrating-crashplan-arq-backup-b2\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating from CrashPlan: Arq and B2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many ex-CrashPlan for Home users have moved to Backblaze over the last year<\/a>. We gave them a reliable, set-and-forget backup experience for the amazing price of $5\/month per computer. Yet some people wanted features such as network share backup and CrashPlan’s rollback policy, and Arq Backup can provide those capabilities. So we asked Stefan Reitshamer of Arq to tell us about his solution.<\/p>\n

—\u00a0Andy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Migrating from CrashPlan<\/span>
\nby Stefan Reitshamer, Founder, Arq Backup<\/div>\n

CrashPlan for Home is gone — no more backups to CrashPlan and no more ability to restore from your old backups. Time to find an alternative!<\/p>\n

Arq + Backblaze B2 = CrashPlan<\/a> Home<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re looking for many of the same features as CrashPlan plus affordable storage, Arq<\/a>\u00a0+\u00a0B2 cloud storage<\/a> is a great option. MacWorld\u2019s review of Arq<\/a> called it \u201cmore reliable and easier to use than CrashPlan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just like CrashPlan for Home, Arq lets you choose your own encryption password. Everything is encrypted before it leaves your computer, with a password that only you know.<\/p>\n

Also just like CrashPlan for Home, Arq keeps all backups forever by default. Optionally you can tell it to \u201cthin\u201d your backup records from hourly to daily to weekly as they age, similar to the way Time Machine does it. And\/or you can set a budget<\/a> and Arq will periodically delete the oldest backup records to keep your costs under control.<\/p>\n

With Arq you can back up whatever you want — no limits. Back up your external hard drives, network shares, etc. Arq won\u2019t delete backups of an external drive no matter how long it\u2019s been since you\u2019ve connected it to your computer.<\/p>\n

The license for Arq is a one-time cost and, if you use multiple Macs and\/or PCs, one license covers all of them. The pricing for B2 storage is a fraction of the cost of any scale cloud storage provider<\/a> — just $0.005\/GB per month and the first 10GB is free. To put that in context, that’s 1\/4th the price of Amazon S3. The savings becomes more pronounced if\/when you need to restore your files. B2 only charges a flat rate of $0.01\/GB for data download, and you get 1 GB of downloads free every day. By contract, Amazon S3 has tiered pricing that starts at 9 times that of B2.<\/p>\n

Arq’s Advanced Features<\/h2>\n

Arq is a mature product with plenty of advanced features:<\/p>\n