Re: Whatever happened to three copies ?
"I thought there was always this IT motto that "for anything important, keep minimum three independent copies, minimum one off-site"."
It's been a few years since I've used CrashPlan in a different role, but we used it for end user laptops.
In theory they were supposed to backup everything important to dedicated file shares that were then backed up as part of the standard company backup policy (disk-to-disk-to-tape).
Only many of the users that we were trying to protect didn't come into the office due to travel or working at customer sites, would forget to VPN in/manually start backups from home and if there were in the office, it was only for meetings, so CrashPlan was a life saver if laptops were lost/stolen/destroyed.
Horses for courses...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
