However, the Free version I have also includes a 30-day Cloud trial subscription, and it is possible that after 30 days those two features may go away.
A little bit of research shows... sort of.
The free version keeps a limited version of the backup sets, the limitation being that after the trial period is over I cannot modify the settings on the sets, nor can I add new ones. Since the sets I have now defined are exactly the same as I have used since about 2011, I think I can live with that.
Probably the 15-miute backup setting will stay with the existing backup sets.
I think I have things set up to run now.
I didn't. Oh, it ran all right, but I messed up the destination assignments and ran out of disk space on the E: drive. I don't recommend trying to set up CrashPlan at one in the morning when you are really tired...
Now it does seem to be working, but I won't know for sure until tomorrow.
And... CrashPlan
really wants me to do a cloud backup, to the point of putting in a non-deletable backup set to send my Desktop to the Cloud. I
think I got around that by parameterizing that one set to backup only between 12:00--12:01 AM and un-checking all of the Monday--Sunday allowable days. We'll see...
Now the question is how do I go about making a restorable clone of my C:\ system SSD? I have several suitably-sized hard drives kicking around that I can put into a USB enclosure. Can I clone to that? Would I clone the entire hard drive or just the Windows directory? Finally, what software is recommended for this? Patrick likes the AOMEI software, are there other recommendations?
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