Benefits and advantages of CrashPlan Cloud Backup
The HFS CrashPlan backup implementation is cloud-based and has the following benefits and advantages:
- No need for VPN. You can back up from anywhere to the CrashPlan Cloud
- Automatic backups in the background - by default every 15 minutes (but configurable)
- Unlimited storage and no daily limits to how much you back up
- You can back up up to four machines under one personal account
- Easy to use interface to select and exclude your data for backup
- By default compression, encryption and deduplication of your backups both in transit and at rest
- Fast restores
- Restore your data from one machine to another
- Cross-platform restores (i.e. Windows to Mac) supported
- Point-in-time restores
- Multiple backup sets allowing you to back up some data more or less frequently than others
- Easy configuration of your backup settings including frequency of background backups and number of versions held
- Backups to local storage possible in addition to cloud backup
