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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 24, 2015
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Crashplan JRE update needed

Crashplan released an update on 21 September 2015 (4.4.0) which fails to install on my pro-6 (running 4.2.28).   The issue is that the new service requires jre 1.7 or jre 1.8, and my system was r...
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weinelm
Tutor
Oct 18, 2015

I had the same problem. I'm running OS 6.5.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2, so I couldn't use the java installer addon from http://minimserver.com/ejre-installer.html.

However I can confirm that Crashplan will upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4.1 with Java 1.7 installed using apt-get.

 

In order to get the windows GUI to connect again, I had to totally delete all the .ui_info files from the pc, reinstall crashplan and update .ui_info with the secuirty token; as described in using crashplan headless instructions. It's seems the format of .ui_info is slightly different in crashplan 4.4.1. Also it seems you don't need to edit the port in ..\conf\.ui_<username> anymore as you did in 4.3.

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