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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 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...

jclaracq

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Oct 04, 2016

I ended up installing 4.8. Just follow same tutorial but replacing 4.7 by 4.8 . The link is not available from Code42 website yet. 2 things:

- I noticed that changing the logs location does not work. Probably this settings is read somewhere else now.

- so far I have not been able to connect to the headless server.

Will try another day. Time to go to sleep.....bzzz

Retired_Member
Oct 07, 2016
Hello,

Did anyone find a solution to move the Crashplan's log file ?

It's not possible anymore to set a new location for the service log in the "my.service.xml" file.

Cache files setup is still good...

Thanks!
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 07, 2016
  You could try to create a soft link.
  - jplee3
    Apprentice
    Oct 07, 2016
    Posted this here - http://blog.andrewkoebbe.com/blog/2014/06/installing-crashplan-headless-on-a-readynas-102:
    
    I ended up scrapping 4.8 and reinstalled 4.7. Also tried the recommendation here:https://pcloadletter.co.uk/201...
    "I downgraded my DS715 (non-Intel CPU) to 4.7.0 and made the /var/packages/CrashPlan/target/upgrade directory to a single read-only file. This looks to prevent the auto-update from happening.
    Cookbook for the directory:
    cd /var/packages/CrashPlan/target
    mv upgrade upgrade.tmp
    touch upgrade
    chmod 444 upgrade
    This at least is a stop gap measure until Crashplan disconnects you if you’re not on 4.8…"