![]() ![]() ![]() Type cd /usr/local/crashplan to move to the right directory. It hasn’t, because we haven’t yet put the file we downloaded earlier in the right place. When it’s done it will say that it started the CrashPlan background service, the one that does the actual backing up.You’ll need to accept the defaults to be able to follow the rest of this guide – they’re all pretty sensible. Unzip the file you downloaded from CrashPlan by typing.Rather than build it yourself, download the one that is attached to that post – patched libjtux.so by typing According to the post on, you also need a patched library file to make it all work.Type wget and then paste the link you just copied – for me the result was.Go to the CrashPlan download page for Linux and copy the link from the grey download button.sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre libjna-java Install Java by typing sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk libjna-java.libjan-java stops CrashPlan from taking a very long time to load backup archives according to a CrashPlan support post linked from. I had a look at installing Oracle (Sun) Java, but so far OpenJDK seems to work OK. Sudo mv /boot/boot_enable_ssh.rc /boot/boot.rc ĬrashPlan requires Java to work. Make the SSH server start when the Raspberry Pi boots (you’ll need this later on) by typing.Sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade (this will take a while) Log in (username: pi, password: raspberry) Make sure you know what you’re doing and work through them all. [edit: on your first boot, it will run ‘raspi-config’, a program to help you set up various things.Connect the Raspberry Pi to screen, keyboard and network, then connect power to boot up.Unzip and transfer the image to the SD card – I used dd, for more details look at the wiki page on preloading the SD card.Download the latest SD card image from the Raspberry Pi site – this was debian6-19-04-2012 for me.Warning! This post is full of command line instructions! This scares some people! Proceed with caution, don’t blame me for anything that you break by copying (or mis-copying) my instructions! Set up the Raspberry Pi That guide uses Arch Linux, which you can use on the Raspberry Pi, but I’ve chosen to use Debian, because it’s more similar to Ubuntu and I value that shred of sanity! I got most of my information from a post by Hadar Pedhazur on about a year ago on getting CrashPlan to work on a Pogoplug, another ARM-based device. The server-side maintenance like ‘compacting’ the stored data might be a lot slower – however, this isn’t something I often do, so it should do. Performance looks quite good for now – I haven’t got a lot of new files to back up as I was able to ‘adopt’ a previous backup archive, but I did run a few minutes of files at around 13MB/s over the 100Mb/s network, which seems pretty reasonable to me (about half what I get hooking the drive up directly to my desktop by USB). With a little bit of hacking, I was able to get everything running fairly easily. I want to have a backup server running all the time so that I’m always able to back up to my own device as well as to ‘the cloud’ – the Raspberry Pi is ideal for this. it works just as well on Windows, Mac and Linux) and gives me the choice of backing up between my own computers as well as to CrashPlan’s own servers. For me, it’s greatest strength is that it’s cross-platform (i.e. This means is uses very little power and generates very little heat, but it does mean it needs different versions of software to what I’m used to.ĬrashPlan is my backup software of choice. It’s not based around an Intel chip like a desktop or laptop (or even one from AMD), but rather an ARM chip more like what’s in a smartphone. It runs Linux, of course – though it can’t run my preferred Ubuntu. If you’ve been living under a rock or you have no interest in tech, you may not have heard of the Raspberry Pi, a tiny (pack of playing cards sized) single board computer. ![]()
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