Sponge Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Anyone having any problems connecting to Crashplan Central (their online backup service)? Everything has been going swimmingly until today. Now it's having connection issues. Nothing has changed my end. Edit: I've just tried to access their support site and it's timing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Just checked and not timing out from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Thanks for looking. I can get to it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Been fine for me, still upload from home & work. I have noticed they've throttled my work connection though? It was uploading at 4Mbps +, now it's <1Mbps. How unreasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 You're not going to back-track on Crashplan are you Mac? Memeo's another option I'm looking at, but there seems to be a plethora of online backup providers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Nah, it's great so far. Great upload speeds, real easy to use. Complete winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I have noticed they've throttled my work connection though? It was uploading at 4Mbps +, now it's <1Mbps. How unreasonable. No such problems here, my Macbook Pro is currently uploading from the office at 15Mbps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Mine still not connecting. I'm trying various things - firewalls, router, but nothing's helping, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biscuits Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Hmmmm..... looks like it's crashed from here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Apt name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 No such problems here, my Macbook Pro is currently uploading from the office at 15Mbps. It could be our DC is throttling to be fair, haven't a clue what the network boys get up to. Stopped/restarted mine? Seems fine so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Web site is proper slow at the minute :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 (edited) I've tried rebooting the PC - no change. I've tried restarting Crashplan - no change. The backup destination is listed as: atlb2.crashplan.com:443 Is there a status page for their servers (or whatever you refer to them as)? /me looks I'm not too worried at the moment, but the worst thing is not knowing if it's something I need to do my end, e.g. reconfigure my router/firewall, or it's their end and I just need to wait it out. I've been reading about how CP can be working one minute and then without the user making any changes, can stop working the next. CP updates and sometimes router/firewall dont like it and block it. Edited February 23, 2011 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Started working again. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 It could have been a routing issue with your ISP, I've had a few people today report strangeness with some websites which as far as I could see were routing problems. I could reach the sites fine from a different internet connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I've not gone with them yet, its hard to understand how they can make money though, $139 for 4 years for unlimited storage and then pay for the bandwidth and backups of the data.... MMmmm. This is probably why Mozy(EMC isn't it now) decided to pull the unlimited plan. I might however use the free version to backup to my Dad and him to my for free, just about as good and no ongoing cost really for me. I will still have the data in 3 different places one offsite and neither of us will throttle each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 (edited) I'm really liking this software. It's finished the backup of my user files on C: drive of this PC. I now have it backing up the data that's on my NAS, well, indirectly. I backup my NAS to USB HDD and I'm backing that up to Crashplan Central. The only thing is it's going to take 80 days. I have my laptop running with the free version and that's backing up to a mirrored drive on this PC. I also have my dad backing up his PC to the same mirrored drive on my PC. It'd be nice if Crashplan backed up it's own backup files, but then I suppose that would result in people without subscriptions, like my dad, getting 'free' online backups. (Me backing up his backup to the cloud.) Edited March 10, 2011 by Sponge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted November 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2011 I've just had an email from Crashplan about their current holiday offers. But this bit interested me, 'Pssst...CURRENT CRASHPLAN CUSTOMERS: We're having a Black Friday sale (Nov 25th-28th). That will be the absolute best time to buy those Gift Subscriptions. Trust us on this.' Just a heads-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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