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I've got 4 TB's worth of photo's (All raw) and want them backed up.

With Crashplan Family: 160 per year. With the cheapest rsync.net: 1500 dollar's per year.

Yeah, not in 1500 years.

Different use cases. You can't archive stuff from crashplan. If you retire the your machine, you either migrate the whole thing to a new one, or your backups will expire after some days.

So if you want single machine backup - crashplan is great. If you want long term service data backup - rsync is great.

Partly true, you see: as long as you do not delete the top level "share" everything underneath can be deleted on your machine and it will stay available at crashplan.

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