In 2015, Microsoft dropped its unlimited OneDrive storage plan. In 2013, this price was raised to $1,000/year, and in 2014 the company dropped the unlimited plan entirely. Non-backup services have also struggled Bitcasa, for example, launched in 2011 with an unlimited cloud storage offering for $10/month or $100/year. In 2011, for example, the popular Mozy service dropped its $5/month unlimited cloud backup plan, replacing it with a $6/month 50GB plan.

The macOS client lacks both features.ĬrashPlan isn't the first cloud backup company to shake up its offerings in a way that leaves customers unhappy. While Carbonite supports versioning (so that you can restore older copies of your files) and a personal encryption key, it only does this when using its Windows client.

Carbonite has a $60 plan that's comparable (and migrating CrashPlan users get a 50-percent discount on that price), if a little less convenient (it won't automatically back up files greater than 4GB, though they can be manually backed up), but has a functional deficit relative to CrashPlan. It is recommending its customers switch to either its small business plan, which doubles the price to $120, or to Carbonite. Customers have until Octoto find alternative backup solutions.ĬrashPlan's service was compelling because it was inexpensive-$60 per year for a single computer-offered unlimited storage, and had a good (if not great) client for both backup and restore operations. Cloud-based backup provider CrashPlan-which our friends at the Wirecutter recommended in 2015-announced earlier this week that it was getting out of the consumer backup game to focus on its enterprise offerings.

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