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by lars_francke 3405 days ago
And you shouldn't.

I wanted to link to various people who have experienced data loss in SpiderOak (me included) due to bugs in the client which have gone unsolved for at least three years.

But....they seem to have redesigned their homepage and the forums that used to be available seem to have gone.

Here is one example though: https://spekxvision.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/more-spideroak-...

So I can only talk from a personal perspective and my experience with their CTO and support team. I've lost data on multiple occasions due to bugs in the client. This data was not recoverable. I've since switched to Crashplan and am much happier.

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Agree, SpiderOak is far from good. Haven't yet experienced data loss, but their sync is very slow and, with custom synced folder (not the 'Hive' one) pretty unreliable.

From Crashplan's web page I don't see if they do file sync, what do you recommend for this domain? I'd use OneDrive, but supported Linux client is a must.

You're right. I use Crashplan for backup. Haven't really found a solution for sync that I like. Missing Linux client is a problem for me as well.