CrashPlan’s backup solution is comparable to many others out there. They have an application that runs on your PC that backs up the data to a web based server.  The client application encrypts the data and attempts to compress it. At $4 per month for unlimited backup space, CrashPlan however is one of the cheaper solutions available at the time of this posting.  With the backup service selected, I wanted to set the prioritization of the traffic to avoid issues with other web based applications.
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