Personally though I now rely on Google Photos for videos and photos and OneDrive & Dropbox for everything else. If you know what you're doing and don't mind getting your hands dirty then I highly recommend Relica ( ) - it has most of the features of Crashplan and only costs $60 per year.

At no extra cost, and absolutely perfect for getting an out of town/city/country backup to protect against that meteor strike. That was where you could partner with friends/family and back up to each other's Crashplan installs. If you want something similar then Carbonite or Mozy will do the job, but at increased cost and without the option of cool/free offsite backup via encrypted peer backups. Crashplan was simple, intuitive, flexible, and it.just.worked. The CrashPlan app will back up your files to all of your destinations, including CrashPlan Central.Firstly, until the demise of Crashplan for home users this market was done and dusted.

If you choose to back up your OneDrive folder with the CrashPlan app by making it available offline, OneDrive still syncs the most recent version of the file across your devices. The CrashPlan app can back up offline files in OneDrive just like any other personal file on your computer. Once a file is downloaded to your computer, it becomes available 'offline,' meaning it is now stored on your computer and you don't need an Internet connection to access it. The actual file isn't downloaded to your computer until you open it. Although they have the appearance of ordinary files, smart files are just placeholders that store metadata (like size and create date) and thumbnail information about the actual file. In Windows 8.1, OneDrive introduced online-only files to conserve local hard drive space. Online-only files are designed to take up less space on your hard drive by storing your file's contents in Microsoft's cloud.

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