It has been announced on Twitter today:
"We’re so sure you’ll prefer CrashPlan over Carbonite, we’ll give you the 1st year free. Ready to switch?"
Note: You just need to access the above page from US IP address, otherwise it will say "We’re sorry. At this time, the Carbonite Switcher offer is valid in the US only."
Mod: Edited title to include US IP restriction
So what happens once you sign up ?
Do you have yo install something on the PC?
So that would mean you need a something like unblock-us all the time. Correct ?
I have Carbonite and am willing to try out CP
jv: It's very easy to get foreign IP address these days. There are plenty of public proxy servers out there. Do not hesitate to ask me If you are interested. BTW I think their deals are amazing!
geek7899: It will simply ask for your e-mail address (you can put any in there). Then you will receive CrashPlan+ Unlimited 1 Year Subscription key which you need to paste to the product.
There are plenty of public proxy servers out there.
if your're happy to send your data via a public proxy to the US servers, go for it… because if you start using your real ip address to backup, and they find out……. there goes your backup…
You are probably not understanding what was I saying. You don't need to be ALWAYS connected from US IP address. Only for the purpose of getting the key. You will only send your e-mail address via the proxy, nothing else. Then you can easily use your Aussie IP.
Actually, that's not really true. I've been with crashplan for 12 months, and was happy with them … But around the time of their recent Australian Server launch, my clients on multiple machines dropped the 12 months of US Server backups (2 TB) and started again, from scratch, to the Australian ones.
Whilst Support have not been able to resolve this issue and determine the reason why from the logs, I have effectively lost my backups that I spent 12 months uploading. When trying to set up my client to rejoin to my old backups in the US, they claimed that I entered the encryption key incorrectly causing all backups for all machines to be automatically deleted and are unrecoverable. I have proof that I didn't but it's my word against theirs.
As per the Crashplan discussion on Whirlpool, it is their intention to move all AU users to AU eventually. I guess they will determine this from your credit card. However be prepared for the risk they will stuff it up (like they did with me) and you will lose your backups.
I can't fault the product otherwise, but their Australian plans, the quality of their client and the on boarding for their AU DC, and their support treatment is questionable. be careful. And keep your own physical backups offsite elsewhere. I'm glad I did.
Multiple physical/cloud backups should be a given anyway, atleast you were that proactive!
I like what I have setup with my vps (I don't have much data, 20-30gb worth, rest is movies/games). I upload to one cloud storage (say dropbox), then download onto my vps, and then sync from there (To any other service, box/sugarsync/CP, whichever I get a good eal with) , which basically allows me to only need to drain my line once, and then incrementally when new files are generated. And it also gives atleast 2-3 copies of my data if need be.
BTW I think their deals are amazing!
Check their Australian pricing for business plans, it is extortion…
Just looked at the Pro prices. $8 to $11 or so per a seat for 3 to 50ish people seems completely reasonable to me if the service does what you need it to.
Shld mention in title that it is for "US Customers" only.
There's been a fair bit of drama of late regarding CrashPlan and Australia: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1965075
tl;dr: The service is very good, but six weeks ago they decided Australians (and no one else in the world) would have to pay up to 50% more on their plans.
would have to pay up to 50% more on their plans.
yeah, it sucks…
Just use a US-based IP address to hit their signup page. It stops the redirection to Australias "special" pricing, which then lets you buy in at the US rates. Dont need a US-based address or credit card or anything silly like that - just an IP that ISNT in Australia, then use all your normal details and credit card and all.
You end up with the best of both worlds, in a way. US pricing, but a local server. Of course, if you dont WANT a local server (like me) it's not the best of both worlds… but whatever.
Holy moly… thanks OP, worked a treat!
Ahh my $7/m 4gb ram USA vps will now come in handy for something other than google music!
Nice. 4GB RAM VPS used for Google Music and overseas proxy.
Over here we use 4GB RAM VPS to run OzBargain :)
Yea, it's great as a vpn!
I bet a 4GB vps in Aus isn't $7 though haha, if you recall a deal I posted a few months back about the databasebydesignllc double your vps for the same cost (Through WHT), I took them up on that and am still going strong!
Also the 180GB storage is good as a Dropbox/Box backup backup host too, just incase anything ever goes wrong!
shaw, could you please maybe point me in the direction of some links relating to what you're talking about here? I'm curious to know what this is about. I'm using StrongVPN right now, which is great, but it sounds like you're using a virtual private server in the US to achieve the same thing, with the added bonus of all sorts of other services/functions. How do you do that? Thanks in advance!
Hey mate I'm writing this on my phone so excuse any mistakes. Basically what I've got setup is a vps (virtual private server) running openvpn (the free commercial version with 2 free connections and connecting from my laptop and attempting to get it running on my Android which isn't urgent. The reason I got such a good deal is the company had a double your vps for the same price promotion a while back, but a 1 or 2gb would be fine, and plenty around for under 10$. From this setup I can access any USA services through the vpn. I also installed a desktop gui and nx into the vps to make life easier. So I have dropbox on the and am in the process of setting up box.com as a webdav extension to the Linux interface and downloading that content too. I have also been experimenting with qemu and vmware as to running a windows environment inside my vps. Not too bad a toy for $7.
You could either set up OpenVPN on a VPS;
http://library.linode.com/networking/openvpn
Or just use PuTTY to create a secure tunnel;
http://martinjr.net/2010/06/29/quick-and-easy-socks5-ssh-tun…
Note: I just quickly Google'd these links so I don't know the quality, but this at least gives you an idea.
Just as per my post above the commercial version of open vpn openvpn.net is much easier to configure and you get 2 free connections (not just you can connect twice, but 2 simultaneous connections) and a nice web based admin panel too.
Thanks shaw and shaunpud. Very interesting, sounds like something I might have to get into! I really appreciate your time.
You can have as much of my time as you want while I'm on the train home lol. If you are interested in a similar setup I'd be happy to look on wht for you when I get home. I get 3tb bandwidth a month too so no chance of going over that on residential adsl.
One of the things I'm most interested in is how I could repurpose an old unused PC, and turn it into some kind of VPN that all the devices in my house would connect to in order to connect to the 'net… but that machine would/could be either permanently or on-demand connected to a VPN or VPS in the US… thereby ensuring all Internet traffic for all my devices would be routed through the US. I'm obviously looking at this for the purpose of having Hulu Plus etc. working on the variety of players around my house as I don't have a router that supports DD-WRT or Tomato, etc.
Any how-to's that you've come across on your travels that would instruct me on setting this up? I've searched myself, but don't seem to be using the right search terms or whatever as I've not seen the results I'm looking for. Thanks again!
I'll happily help you out when I get home mate.
You're very kind, but please don't spend too much time on it. I know how precious time is these days! I'm quite happy to read any other guides you could throw my way… anything just to point me in the right direction would be sensational. Thanks again!
Just thinking of some way to setup the old pc as a server/pseudo-router type thing, would require something like 2 x NIC's and 1 x WNIC, then turn off the wireless on the router and have all wireless and cabled connections go through a switch into the spare machine. Would then need to set the gateway of that machine to the router address, while pushing all traffic through to the vpn address.
Let me do a test on my laptop, sharing my wireless connection with the vpn enabled through my sisters pc, and see what external IP it gives me, just a sec.
Ahh I will spend some time on this, as it is learning on my part also, so it isn't really lost time as much as spending time to investigate and learn something (not necessarily new) but practical.
Oh right.. I can already see that I'll have to forgo my Belkin router's 300Mbps wireless for something provided through a PCI NIC. Hmmm…
Oh, this is interesting:
http://swimminginthought.com/pfsense-routing-traffic-strongv…
I'd heard of pfSense before… it seems pretty cool!
http://www.pfsense.org/
From my experience, the best and easy to set up background SSH tunnel daemon on Windows is MyEnTunnel (http://nemesis2.qx.net/pages/MyEnTunnel)
That looks pretty cool, I would be happy to share my vps (openvpn) connection with you if you wanted, I have 1 spare connection and plenty of bandwith/resources, let me know if you'd be interested.
Trying here to see if I can get windows to accept the network share and then route through the vpn, interesting little experiment lol especially using a patch cable!!
Ahh got it going with a little secpol editing and configuring, trying hulu on the pc now, running through the laptop wireless connection and through the vpn, working an absolute treat!
This screenshot is taken off the PC (the one being shared to with a hulu fifa 13 video playing and the config that is azutomatically generated through the windopws sharing system on the host machine. So essentially any device capable of dhcp should be able to connect the same way as I have here. Hulu works an absolute treat too, lagless apart from a small delay at the beginning of a streem of a few seconds.
You could most likely obtain a 150-300MB/s nic from online if you wanted to, and a couple of cheap gigabit cards could make it work quite nicely.
Ofcorse there are other ways of doing it.
That is sweet! I'm going to have to look into this… nice work mate, thanks for the info!
No problem, if you want any assistance setting up a test situation locally, I would be happy to help, feel free to PM me - anytime.
And yea, as I said, if you want to share my vpn, I'd be more than happy for that, even if it is just to test and get something setup at your end.
Good luck, keep me updated, interested to see what you go with!
Just change the DNS servers on your media devices to use those from tunlr.net and nearly all media services (Hulu, BBC iPlayer etc) will work without any need to proxy your traffic.
The primary (preferred) DNS IP address is 184.82.222.5 and the secondary (alternate) DNS IP address is 199.167.30.144.
Proxy for Google Music? Other than the initial sign up (which needs a US IP) there's no problem uploading to or streaming from Google Music from here in Oz. My NAS uploads fine and my Android handset streams perfectly over wifi and cellular data.
If you need a FREE VPN account to get this offer, try 'Cloak - GetCloak.com
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By the way, if anyone wants me to enter their email address in the form (using my usa vpn) then just pm me the email address and ill do that, and then you just download and register.
Any chance mate? yonten(at)ymail(dot)com. Cheers
have you seen their business plans? almost gave me a heart attack the other week… I'd like to know if they have any business customers at all…