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One problem with Crashplan is that it seems to be all-or-nothing.

I've got it running on my desktop at home; I've got gigs and gigs of photos there. My macbook doesn't have enough free disk space to store all of them - and Crashplan doesn't let me store and sync just the 2014 photos.



Backblaze is $5/month (per machine) and let's you grab single files (or directories) from your backup if you want.


Does it do selective sync? e.g., HOME:/media/pictures contains folders for 2014...etc, and LAPTOP:/media/pictures/ only contains 2014, and any changes to LAPTOP:/media/pictures/2014/ get propagated to HOME:/media/pictures/2014 etc?


It's not a sync service, it's a backup service.

The flow is directories on your machine > BackBlaze.

Anything in the other direction is manual.


Well I guess I am not listing my work flow clearly.

Backup: Comp #1 (Selected) -> HomeNAS Comp #2 (Selected) -> HomeNAS Comp #6 (Out of State Mother Inlaws (Selected) -> HomeNAS

Work Flow Any Comp working on files from NAS (Not local)


That actually just confuses me more.




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