Small app that does a good job of backing up important files. It auto restarts and rarely fails. If the app does fail the system notifies you via email. It keeps multiple revisions of the files so you can not only restore them quickly but go back to a later date if you need to. The app allows you to set up a local backup as well as your cloud backup for quick restores. Definitely, a must if you are required to store legal documents for up to 8 years like our company.

Good backups are good security! Code42's CrashPlan arrived on the scene for our company just days after ransomware "ate" the desktop of one of our administrative assistants at a remote location. We weren't able to save that desktop data, but we wanted it to be the last time an admin loses so much work in a single incident. Since then, we have quietly rolled out CrashPlan to our top tier admins who support our Leadership and Executive teams to great effect. We feel the IT department should be either invisible or making lives easier, and CrashPlan allows us to do both! We promoted it as a productivity tool, allowing tech support to have some of our busiest users back up and running in mere minutes after an incident, rather than hours or days.

Ease of use, making backup of data painless

Crashplan was great. Backups work well. Scheduling is great, network detection works well. Restores work well.

Strong security features. Flexible options for backup targets and scheduling. Fairly easy to set up. Normally low impact on users.