If you have lots of information to back up (> 100 GB), backing up online could take weeks. With so much data going over the wire, backing up online might not seem practical.

With our Seeded Backup solution we can help you get your backup started in days instead of weeks. Benefits of seeding include:

• Speeding up an initial online backup
• Convenient solution for large backups (> 100 GB)
• Simple, hassle-free operation

1. You place your order (we strive to ship all orders within 1 business day).
2. You receive the external USB drive and back up to it with CrashPlan.
   We include instructions for setting up and backing up the hard drive in the box containing the drive. CrashPlan Seeding Setup
3. You send the drive back (with shipping label provided).
4. We copy your backup archive to our data center.
5. You use CrashPlan Central as backup destination.

We'll send you a 1TB drive. Thanks to compression you'll be able to fit about 1.5TB of data on the drive. Photos (which are already compressed files) won't compress much. Files that are mostly text, compress better.

Yes. Your data is encrypted, so even if the drive is lost, there is no risk to your personal files.

Yes, providing all of the files fit on one drive.

No. We've tested our drives for our hardware. To ensure a reliable backup, we need you to seed your backup with our drives.

You use the 1TB seeded and when your backup continues after your data is on our servers, everything else selected for backup will be added to your archive. Still saving you a lot of time.

Our data safe is a converted bank vault in Minneapolis, MN.

We retain your backup archive as long as you have an active CrashPlan Central subscription.

50 US States and all Military POs.

We're centrally located in Minneapolis, MN, which means even Ground Shipping takes only 3 or 4 days to most places. Our goal is to ship the drive the next business day.

You have 21 days from the date of purchase to return the drive to us. If we have not received the drive within that time, we will assume you are keeping the drive and charge your credit card an additional $300.

No. Price includes shipping BOTH ways.

We include instructions for setting up and backing up the hard drive in the box containing the drive. If you cannot locate them, click for a PDF version of the CrashPlan Seeding Setup

Seeding is intended for your initial backup.

When the seed is loaded onto our servers, any files you backed up to Central are completely overwritten/replaced with the files on the seed. It's as if the day you start backup to the seed drive is day 1 of your backup to CrashPlan Central. You will not be able to restore versions of files that you backed up to Central before your seed backup started.

In an emergency, we can ship your backed up files to you on a hard drive, so that you can restore locally. Here's how to get started:

1. Send an email to sales@crashplan.com
2. Subject line text: Ship CPC Restore
3. In the email message, provide contact info, including:
   • Your full name
   • Account email address, if different from the email address you are sending the message from
   • Shipping address
   • Shipping option - regular or 2-day
   • Important: Contact telephone number and best time to reach you
4. Our staff will contact you to get billing info and complete your order.
5. In several days (depending on which shipping option you choose) you will receive a USB drive from CrashPlan with instructions.