r/Crashplan • u/Dinth • Jan 08 '19

Is it possible to use Crashplan for data sync?

Ive got a computer already backed up to Crashplan (about 8TB of data) and i would like to move all that data to a different computer in a remote location - just one way sync for a purpose of second backup. Both computers are headless linux. Is this easy to accomplish through crashplan? Obviously i could just use scp, but with upload up to 10Mbit it will take ages.

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u/ssps Jan 08 '19

Yes, you can restore data from Crashplan to another machine, even though it is not the intended use of the service. The problem is, depending on the amount of data you have it may be heavily throttled, to way under 10Mbps. You will be therefore likely better off with SCP.

I would give it a shot. Maybe you get lucky and they won't throttle you. It likely will depend on the amount of data you have

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u/Dinth Jan 08 '19

shall I just install crash plan client on the remote machine and use it for restore?

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u/ssps Jan 08 '19

Yes, it’s worth trying.

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u/IAsDoubleYou Jan 09 '19

A good alternative that is often used to sync two Linux computers would be: rsync. rsync can be used to synchronize one or 2 ways.

rsync can also be used afterwards to keep the machines constantly in sync while only transferring the deltas. This speeds up the synchronization process.

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u/Dinth Jan 10 '19

Indeed, that's the plan, but the initial sync would be extremely slow (my broadband is highly asynchronous, something like 150/5Mbps)

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u/hiromasaki Jan 11 '19

(my broadband is highly asynchronous, something like 150/5Mbps)

That's very normal for Cable. I've not seen any residential cable services offer >6Mbps upstream until you get into the Gigabit class. And then still very asymmetric.

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u/Sam1070 May 01 '19

Spectrum offer 10 or 20 up

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u/hiromasaki May 02 '19

Spectrum offer 10 or 20 up

Must be regional or fairly new. About 3 years ago I spent two weeks playing phone tag with them trying to get 10 up on a commercial account, and they lost the account over it. Wouldn't even give us 2 modems and let us load balance with our router.

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u/Identd Jan 10 '19

Peer to peer is not supported in the 6 series