Ok, not quite, but I thought a catchy title would be good

I hadn´t realised that CrashPlan had a policy of deleting backups from old inactive machines.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-cramp-read-your-terms-of- service-before-its-too-late/

To be honest I´m not convinced that was their stated policy before. The Wayback machine seems to think that their page about it is new:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sup...ud_Destinations

I´ve just had an email warning that they will be deleting two old backups of mine in 5 days. One machine hasn´t backed up since 2013 and the other since 2014. So if they really do have this policy then they´ve not been enforcing it.

I´ve kept those backups around because I can´t be 100% sure there isn´t something in there that I failed to transfer.

I´m about to install a couple of VMs that I can associate to those backups in the hope that I can keep them alive until I´ve had chance to check.