- #UNABLE TO CONNECT TO BACKUP ENGINE CRASHPLAN FOR FREE#
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#UNABLE TO CONNECT TO BACKUP ENGINE CRASHPLAN HOW TO#
This example will show how to reconfigure the CrashPlan Desktop installation on a Windows PC to talk to the CrashPlan Engine instance running on your HDA. Save the file and then restart the CrashPlan daemon:ĪTTENTION the above changes are sometimes undone during crashplan updates, you have to repeat above steps to repair connectivity !!!!! Desktop Client.Search for the “serviceHost” parameter and change it from:.Nano -w /usr/local/crashplan/conf/my.service.xml Open a terminal window as root and edit the following XML configuration file in your favorite text editor. Trying to restore such files from another computer (this is called a guest restore in CrashPlan) will require the user to enter the owner's password.Ĭonfigure CrashPlan Amahi 7 (Fedora 19) On the HDA
If you'd like to use different accounts, so that each computer (user) is the sole owner of his backed up files, this is also possible. That means you'll create the account on the first computer you configure CrashPlan on (it can be your HDA, or any other computer on your home network), and then simply use that same account on all other computers, instead of creating new accounts. You'll probably want to use the same account for all computers in your home. You'll be able to create a new account from the configuration app itself. Using CrashPlan requires a (free) CrashPlan account. To learn more about CrashPlan, you can visit the CrashPlan website, where features are explained, and where you can watch CrashPlan in action in their video tour. The backup folder is best placed on a non-pooled disk, or of another type of managed volume or filesystem, such as BTRFS, ZFS, an LVM volume, RAID array, etc. As such, it's best not to point the target directory with in a Greyhole pool, as the number of operations builds beyond a functional level. To be able to use CrashPlan, you'll need to install the CrashPlan application on your Amahi HDA, configure it as needed, and install the CrashPlan application on all the computers you'd like to backup to your HDA.Ĭrashplan makes very regular writes/reads to the directory it's configured to store backups in. It will also allow you to become the backup server of friends and family, if you'd like.ġ While CrashPlan is free to personal use, an advanced version, CrashPlan+, is available for a fee, if you'd like to get the features it adds to the free CrashPlan version.Ģ Technically, it's also possible to backup your HDA into your other computers if you need that.
#UNABLE TO CONNECT TO BACKUP ENGINE CRASHPLAN FOR FREE#
Using CrashPlan on your Amahi HDA will allow you to back up, for free 1, all your computers into your Amahi HDA 2.
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