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Aug 21, 2016

Tutorial to install CrashPlan (updated August 2016)

Hello everyone, As I have reinstall CrashPlan on my ReadyNas today. I thought I will share with everyone my updated notes. Feel free to comment to improve this step-by-step. Maybe a clever person...

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jclaracq

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Oct 03, 2016

I noticed as well that my crashplan stopped to work about a week ago. I will check that as soon as I can and update the tuto if necessary. As StephenB said Crashplan installs its own java package. But I can only speak for x86 version

jplee3

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Oct 03, 2016

Thanks! I don't think this is really going to be an issue for x86/Intel-based NASes, as I would expect the JRE that CP precompiles to run just fine. It really looks like it's an issue with ARM-based NASes. And before, this was only really an issue of pointing CP to use the Java/JRE compiled for ARM on the NAS (rather than CP's precompiled version). Now the issue appears to be that CP added another precompiled library dependency (which only works in x86), so even if users of ARM-based NASes point CP to use the system JRE, the CP service will still fail because that other CP-specific library can't load in the ARM environment.

john_h1
Tutor
Oct 04, 2016
Yup, Crashplan has stopped working for me too on my RN316 ReadyNAS. I'm thinking about dumping Crashplan altogther and just use sync with Dropbox for my important files.
- jplee3
  Apprentice
  Oct 04, 2016
  The RN316 is Intel-based isn't it? You shouldn't have any issues getting it working again - probably what you're running into is Java problems (if you have Java 7 still installed, it's not going to work and you'll need to update to Java 8)
  - jclaracq
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    Oct 04, 2016
    I am doing a check here. Actually Crashplan is still at 4.7 from their website. However looking at the logs, I see that on the 29 Sept. Crashplan tried to update itself. Doing so he needed Java 8 (jre-linux-x64-1.8.0_72.tgz) and installed it however it fails to update because of wrong CPIO.
    I did
    apt-get remove busybox-cpio
    apt-get install cpio
    
    Now I am looking how to trigger the update from Crashplan again...