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^ astroturfing

Given that the account was just created, I tend to agree. Which is sad, as Crashplan is a genuinely good product (disclosure: I've been using it for 2+ years and am paid up for the next few years). It gives fine grained (up-to-the-minute) off-site backups w/versioning and easy restores (I've only done one-off restores, not full disaster recovery).

I've used it in production and personal environments.

But I hate the idea that they are farming out this kind of astroturfing. Gack.

Nah, it wasn't astroturfing; I lurk most of the time. It does everything that submission does, does it well and does it inexpensively compared with rolling your own or having to deal with the vagaries of S3 (who lost S3 and EBS data irretrievably in the EU last week).

So you can downvote me, but don't think that it was Code42 doing it - I have no relation to them.

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