It is not a plan, it is an option. Not a very good option at that. A better option would be to allow it to take the 1+ years needed, and prioritized what is downloaded first. In the end, like most people I use only a very small percentage of my data on a regular basis. For my movie archive...
I just commented on that. They will not ship your data on hard drive for any price if:
1. You want them shipped outside the US. (I live in Canada.)
2. Your total storage in CrashPlan is more that 3.5 TB.
3. You use a private encryption fee...
I've just been doing my own tests with crashplan. Really it does not make sense as a many TB disaster recovery. First of all upload speed. I get about 35 GB per day. Crashplan only promises 10 GB per day, so I count myself lucky. So at the promised rate it would take 100 days to backup a...