I thought that buying the subscription on the website would have created the account, but it did not, so I had to create my account in the Windows application itself. The only part that took me a minute to figure out was that I needed to create a new account rather than trying to login with something. The installer for Crashplan was very fast and easy. At this rate it will be an hour or two to backup all my data! That is so much faster than Carbonite. I then saw a backup speed of 70 megabytes per second! This is literally several hundred times faster than Carbonite, which backs up and restores at around 0.5 megabytes per second.

After running through the installer and setting everything up, I started the backup. Fast forward to today and I decided to switch to Crashplan.

I have a fiber Internet connection running at 1 GB so I knew that was not the bottleneck. When I installed Carbonite the first time, it took several days to backup this data. I have about 55 GB of data that I back up. I’ve been using Carbonite for my personal / business backup for over three years now.

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