Overview
You may need to know where CrashPlan stores your data in order to plan for disaster recovery, or to meet privacy compliance requirements. This articles describes where your data is stored.
Considerations
- Data is always encrypted when in servers in our data centers as well as when in transit. For more information, see CrashPlan architecture.
- To enforce secure access to your data, ensure that firewalls are open only to the designated ports. See IP addresses and ports used by CrashPlan.
User and device data
User and device data displayed in the CrashPlan console is stored in CrashPlan cloud data centers. The general geographical location of the data centers is indicated in the CrashPlan cloud URL. For example:
- "ie": Ireland
- "eu": European Union
- "us": United States
The CrashPlan cloud locations are:
- United States
- Ireland
Files
CrashPlan backs up files from your computers and stores them in destinations in CrashPlan cloud data centers.
While we keep the precise location of our data centers confidential to ensure security and maintain privacy, the naming convention that CrashPlan uses for its destinations provides the general geographical location of the data centers used. For example:
- "AMS": Amsterdam
- "AU" or "AUS": Australia
- "DUB": Dublin
- "IRL": Ireland
- "NLD" - Netherlands
- "SGP" or "SIN": Singapore
- "US" or "USA": United States
Following are examples of destination names:
- CrashPlan Cloud AUS
- CrashPlan Cloud IRL
- CrashPlan Cloud NLD
- CrashPlan Cloud SGP
- CrashPlan Cloud USA East
- CrashPlan Cloud USA West
- CrashPlan Australia
- CrashPlan Central*
- Internet2 US
- PROe Cloud, AMS
- PROe Cloud, AU
- PROe Cloud, DUB
- PROe Cloud, SIN
- PROe Cloud, US
- PROe Cloud, US - West
*Located in the United States.