Crashplan for Dummies, aka Step by Step :)

InterClaw wrote:

I wouldn't recommend just relying on CrashPlan Central for your one copy of your files, but that just me I guess. :) So even when you removed /var/lib/crashplan your NAS retained its GUID and didn't have to upload everything again to CrashPlan Central? CrashPlan automatically asked if you wanted to "adopt" the previous GUID? Was it during the installation process or when you connected the frontend to the headless install later? Do you have a link to the documentation on this? Was it this? http://www.crashplan.com/enterprise/sup ... a_computer

from my experience
after deleting that dir i was able to install crashplan over the existing install
in my last example i did go one step further and also deleted where the program was installed - just so i was confident on the behaviour if i had to do this at a later stage.
installation on the headless server was the same process per the sep-by-step guide
it was indeed when i connected from a desktop to the headless nas, it asked if i was an existing user/password etc, that's when it prompted if i wanted to adopt the a previous 'computer' from a list, so it must pick up to what you refer to as the guid as part of this adoption process.
It then showed me the set-up I had previously configured + i did not have to reinstall all over again to crashplan (as a block level sync was performed) all files where there :D

(edit -i'm unsure how it handles scenarios such as yours which include local computer backups)

here's the link i read;
http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/r ... r_computer


ps- thanks for sharing your setup, very nice. It's got me thinking of doing something similar as i'm really impressed with CrashPlan working on the nas in first place.
pps - I also agree with you both about not relying on cloud service as a single backup, and the follow up thoughts if will be a shake-out of the number of suppliers in the near future.

pps- ***if there is a proper way to upgrade the client +if java needs to be updated at a later stage? I'd appreciate if someone could chip in***