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CrashPlan Pre-Black Friday 50% off Sale

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ElusiveA on 11/11/2014 - 09:58 code42.com (257 clicks)

Family CrashPlan subscriptions are 50% off.
An additional one or two years on top of what you currently have.

For Individuals
Upgrade to a Family plan, adding one or two year protection on up to 10 devices.

1 Year Unlimited Family Plan
ONLY $75
limited time only
(normally $149.99)

2 Year Unlimited Family Plan
ONLY $145
limited time only
(normally $289.99)

These are the prices for the american subscription. Once you log in, if you have an Australian account it will present:
Family - 1 year
2-10 Computers
A$82.50
WAS: A$165

Hilarious video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKvJUqyvuM

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  • Maz78 on 11/11/2014 - 10:06

    Huh? What is it?

    • onggie on 11/11/2014 - 10:07

      Backup for your files

    • Smigit on 11/11/2014 - 11:19

      Cloud based backup for your system. It's aimed more at providing restoration for system/application/file failures than file sharing and mobile access as something like Dropbox may be used. The tradeoff is there's no size limitations here. You install an application on your network and at regular intervals it'll sync files that have changed back to their server.

      Note it took me a very long time (probably over a month) to get my initial backup onto their servers running syncs at hours I wouldn't be using my system, and that's after deselecting certain multimedia directories. They do have a paid service where you can send a backup on a HDD to them to get you started quicker if that's important.

    • AlexF on 11/11/2014 - 13:44

      .. it's alternative to having an external hard-disk to which you backup your images/data/media/whatever and keep at your mum's place.

  • MrDixit on 11/11/2014 - 10:39

    Is this existing customers only? Link goes to a login page on mobile.

    • ElusiveA on 11/11/2014 - 10:44

      Yes existing customers only. Although the video says it includes free customers, so you could probably sign up for a free account and then 'renew' for the discount.

      • Smigit on 11/11/2014 - 11:11
        +1

        The FAQ mentions it doesn't apply to accounts created after Nov 10. See http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Subscriptions/Pre…

        They do occasionally have referral promotions for new users. I also suspect it is very likely they'll run a Black Friday sale if they are running a 'Pre Black Friday' one for the existing customers.

    • [Deactivated] on 11/11/2014 - 18:51

      "Offer applies to existing CrashPlan users only.
      To be eligible, you must have an account and/or subscription prior to Monday, November 10, 2014."

  • guidedlight on 11/11/2014 - 10:44
    +4

    CrashPlan is very good. I've been using it for the last 2-3 years.
    No complaints to all.

    All my files are secure. All file history is backed up. All files are available from my mobile phone or web browser on other computers if needed.

    • davidl2 on 11/11/2014 - 22:03

      so are the iCloud users said…..their files are secured! :-)

  • aous on 11/11/2014 - 11:31

    I think the title should have the words "Family Plan"
    I have the individual plan, and I cannot find the discount for it.

  • zhiliangh on 11/11/2014 - 11:37
    -2

    It just does not make sense given our pathetic upload speed. Until we got "proper" version of NBN, cloud backup just does not work.

    • toomuchdogfur on 11/11/2014 - 11:45
      +3

      It works fine… not great, there's a long seed time (took me 6 months to upload the initial 1.2TB over ADSL2+) but after that the little incremental changes aren't really an issue.

      Note Crashplan has Sydney servers so you can get pretty good speeds, I get about 4 Mbps over my current 25/5 NBN

    • Smigit on 11/11/2014 - 11:53
      +1

      As above it took me about a month to get an initial upload onto their server at my upload speed of 0.3Mb/s (I imagine many people get way better than that). Now that I have the initial baseline up though, I'm usually sitting at about 98%+ backed up status. When the alternative is losing everything on my hard drive if our house catches on fire, getting back 98 - 100% of my files seems better than getting nothing back, even if the upload speeds are pretty woeful. Once you have an initial backup hit 100%, I imagine most documents and system files won't change dramatically for most users day to day unless you are doing video editing or something similarly data intensive.

      The exception is I don't upload videos or games data files (saves I can), but I can get those back off iTunes or other movie/game services manually anyway.

      I think it's worth while personally to have an offsite backup. Worse case you can pay to send them a physical hard drive copy to save you from the initial backup, which will still be less painful should you ever lose everything.

      I do also keep a local backup via Time Machine should I need to restore and have access to my homes hardware.

    • ElusiveA on 11/11/2014 - 12:23

      Same here, it took quite a while to get all the data initially backed up, but very happy with it.
      As a temporary solution while the initial seed was happening I set all of the home computers to back up to a desktop with a lot of storage locally, secondary backup was to the Australian cloud servers. Its quite a flexible system.

    • sarakoth on 11/11/2014 - 12:39

      Yes there are other options like external drives, etc but they are manual. i.e you have to take the disk off site, then return later to sync. Cloud works OK but it does depend on how many files you want saved. Crashplan is good in that you can set multiple backup sets to multiple locations. Therefore providing multiple failure points. I have some going to an internal drive, some going to an external drive and some going to the cloud. I cleared my entire backup set at one point to move over the Aus server, though speeds don't seem much better so probably restricted by my ADSL upload speed rather than their servers.

  • technogear on 11/11/2014 - 17:19

    Anyone figured out how to take advantage the 2 years subscriptions from US accounts (I originally paid 4 years of CrashPlan using Hola to do it)? I can't seems to do it with this one. Only showing up as 1 year AU extension.

    • mickeyjuiceman on 11/11/2014 - 17:28

      I emailed them about it, but I'm getting non-answers ATM. Most annoying that they send out emails with a big offer to people who they then exclude from that offer, even when they have an account that should qualify.

    • windix on 11/11/2014 - 19:07

      use US based VPN etc and you will be able to buy 2 years US subscriptions (I have tried that successfully — AU creditcard + AU address works fine)

    • BigLeviathan on 11/11/2014 - 22:46

      Use FrootVPN; I just renewed my subscriptions and went through okay…

  • Benoffie on 12/11/2014 - 04:02
    +1

    Totally worth it. Saved me a hell of a lot of heart ache only last week when the in-law (who is not computer savvy) came to me with a dead in the water laptop after installing goodness knows what. Because I had set up Crash Plan and he was unable to switch it off, I was able to get a very recent back up and send him on his way.

    I find it superior to other cloud based systems given the levels of security employed. Sure, no system is 100% perfect, but there is no way I'd trust my data on some of the other cloud services. Backing up at home is no longer an option when you consider break in and fire risks.

    A family plan is a perfect option when you're sick of your parents, in-laws etc all coming to you whinging about computer this and that! It saves you an amazing amount of grief!

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