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by fnordprefect 2383 days ago
BackBlaze by far - I moved from CrashPlan when they screwed their consumer offering.

BackBlaze has a stable client (even though it lives in system extensions) that uses fewer resources, as opposed to the buggy POS that is CrashPlan. IIRC CP client is Java, BB is native.

BackBlaze's restore is far more robust (I got timeouts trying to restore large files from CP) and more intuitive.

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Currently I neither use Backblaze or CrashPlan but restore was one of the few features (among other features like CP’s excellent versioning) where CP beat BB hands down. Heck, the last time I checked BB didn’t even let you restore using the client. You had to download the files from the portal and then put it somewhere yourself. I am not sure it has changed now. While CP’s was so seamless that it would just restore your files in the background wherever you wanted - at their original location or elsewhere. It worked so well.

Yes, BB Java app was (is?) indeed a POS.