Ditto on everything that Christian said. I wanted to address one sentence:

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This is contrary to my philosophy. I don't view my backups as a tool to recover from a crash or failed hard drive, but as a safety reservoir I can go to when I screw up a file so badly that I need to replace it with a saved copy.

A backup can and should be both, and Crashplan is. First of all, a backup very much SHOULD be what you use to recover from a failed/stolen/damaged drive. How else would you do it? But Crashplan gives you that little bit extra of allowing you to restore any earlier version of your files.

I agree that it's a different program than what you're used to, but I strongly suggest that you leave the defaults alone and just go about your day. Let the application take care of it and you'll be protected.
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Matt