That all depends on your Internet connection and how much data you have pushed. To restore the data, you'd put the utility on your system, login, and use the restoration feature to pull your files down. So, from their servers, it would take as long as you downloading all your files again. If you're just pulling it from your local server, then it would depend on your network and any hardware bottlenecks. (I've never tested how fast CrashPlan is at pulling the files locally, so I can't add anything useful to that.) Unrelated: I've actually used CrashPlan's restore utilities to pull down some files I needed when I didn't have access to my server. Worked pretty slick. I /think/ you can actually access the files through your mobile device and their app as well. For me, it works well and I'd recommend it. I have several terabytes of data backed up though, so for the price, I don't see an easy way to beat it as an off-site backup. That said, it took a really long time to get all of that uploaded since I opted to not send them an external drive. And come to think of it, a friend of mine set it up at a small business with 6 machines backing up to 1. He seemed to be pretty impressed at how slick it was compared to other solutions. -Andrew On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Chris Schumann <cschumann at twp-llc.com>wrote: > Andrew wrote: > > CrashPlan > > The thing I don't get about CrashPlan is this: What are you supposed to do > if your hard disk dies? How long does it take to get me working again? > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131216/ff0e646f/attachment.html>