As people may begin backing up to CrashPlan's 'preferred partner' for the transition and longtime consumer-side competition, Carbonite, many photographers with large backups are bound to have nothing in the cloud for some time during the overlap of CrashPlan's subscription running out and the catch-up work that needs to happen to get all those files onto another cloud service. But that two months won't be enough for those with large backups whose plans expire soon, and not sometime next year. They'll even add two months of free service on top of your current plan. The company will let you finish out your current subscription. And what happens? CrashPlan decides you're not worth it. CrashPlan's weekly reports regularly tell you you're 99.9-percent backed up. And, you also spent the better part of a year waiting for all of those files to back up to CrashPlan's servers at the amazing pace of roughly 1 mbps. You also have some additional drives in other locations should your house burn down or suffer a break-in.

If you're like me, you have a small RAID backup drive at home for your local backup needs.

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