Crashplan

2011-09-05T21:14:04Z

Red: added troubleshooting section. Added permission changes to the troubleshooting section to resolve problem running the desktop UI

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==CrashPlan on Amahi==

Using CrashPlan on your Amahi HDA will allow you to back up, for free<sup>1</sup>, all your computers into your Amahi HDA<sup>2</sup>.<br/>
It will also allow you to become the backup server of friends and family, if you'd like.

<sup>1</sup> While CrashPlan is free to personal use, an advanced version, CrashPlan+, is available for a fee, if you'd like to get the [http://b1.crashplan.com/consumer/features.html#CrashPlan+ features it adds to the free CrashPlan version].<br/>
<sup>2</sup> Technically, it's also possible to backup your HDA into your other computers if you need that.

==Installing CrashPlan==

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.

==More about CrashPlan==

To learn more about CrashPlan, you can visit the [http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/features.html CrashPlan website], where features are explained, and where you can watch CrashPlan in action in their [http://b1.crashplan.com/consumer/features-tour.html video tour].

==CrashPlan Accounts==

Using CrashPlan requires a (free) CrashPlan account. You'll be able to create a new account from the configuration app itself.

You'll probably want to use the same account for all computers in your home. 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.

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. 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.

==How to configure CrashPlan on your HDA==

<p style="color:red">Note that the CrashPlan UI sometimes has issues registering button clicks. If you click a button and it seems to do nothing, hit the ENTER key. That seems to help in such cases.</p>

===On the HDA itself===
The easiest way to configure CrashPlan is to access it from the HDA desktop directly.

Launch a Terminal (Applications > System > Terminal).

In the terminal window, type '''CrashPlanDesktop''' (with the proper case) and hit ENTER.

If you don't have physical access to your HDA, or if you run it headless, try the methods below.

===Using VNC===
If you have [[VNC]] or [[WebVNC]] setup, you can use that to configure CrashPlan remotely, instead of using the OS-dependent methods described below.

Simply connect to your HDA using VNC (or WebVNC), and launch a Terminal (Applications > System > Terminal).

In the terminal window, type '''CrashPlanDesktop''' (with the proper case) and hit ENTER.

The CrashPlan configuration application will start.

===Using X-Forwarding===
To use X-Forwarding, you don't need X running, or even installed on your HDA.<br/>
All you need is an X server on your client computer, and to SSH into your HDA with X-Forwarding enabled.

====Windows====
=====PuTTY and Xming=====
You'll need two things to be able to configure CrashPlan from Windows: PuTTY and Xming.

For PuTTY, just download putty.exe from [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html here]. You can leave it on your desktop and use it from there.<br/>
For Xming, you'll need to download and install two files: the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming/ Xming installer], and the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming-fonts/ fonts installer].<br/>
You can accept all the default values for both installs.

Now, you should have a start menu item for Xming. Start it from there. You should now have a black X icon in your system tray.

Next, start PuTTY, and enter your HDA IP address under ''Host Name (or IP address)'', enter 22 under ''Port'' and select SSH under ''Connection Type''.

[[Image:Red-S01.png]]

Open the ''Connection > SSH'' item in the ''Category'' tree on the left, and select ''X11''.<br/>
Select the checkbox that says ''Enable X11 forwarding''.

Now go back into ''Session'' in the ''Category'' tree, and give a name for this profile, so you won't have to repeat those steps next time.<br/>
Enter a name in the ''Saved Sessions'' text box, and hit the ''Save'' button on the right.<br/>
Next time your start PuTTY, you'll be able to just double-click your profile in the ''Saved Sessions'' section to connect to your HDA with X11 forwarding enabled.

Now, connect to your HDA by clicking ''Open'', or double-clicking your profile name in the Saved Sessions select box (on the left of the Load, Save and Delete buttons).

Enter your Fedora username and password when prompted.

=====FreeXer=====
FreeXer is an open source attempt to make X11 forwarding easy. It consists of PuTTY and Cygwin with a wrapper that configures both to enable X11 forwarding.

First, download FreeXer [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freexer/FreeXer/0.2/freeXer-installer.exe here].

Once installed, open the "freeXer Session Editor" and enter a name for the session you're about to start under ''Session'', enter your HDA IP address under ''Host'', select SSH under ''Protocol'', enter your Fedora username under ''User'' and password under ''Password''.

[[Image:Sess_editor_new.png]]

Click on the ''Save'' button to save the session information. Once you saved the session information, the next time you need it you only need to open the session information file (or load it into the session editor) and you're done.

When ready, click on the ''Launch Session'' button.

=====Once logged in=====
Enter the following command to start the CrashPlan configuration UI:

<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 3px 3px 1em 3px;">
CrashPlanDesktop<br/>
</div>

=====Guides=====
There are many guides available online that explain the steps of X11 forwarding. Here's some, if you need further help:
*[http://www.youtube.com/v/EsHuZJ5gORE?hl=en_US&fs=1 X Windows Forwarding video on YouTube]
*[http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/misc/xwindows.html Using X Forwarding on Windows at Caltech]
* [http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html X Forwarding with Putty on Windows at University of Minnesota]

====Mac OS X====
Open a Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app)<br/>
and enter the following commands:

<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 3px 3px 1em 3px;">
ssh -X hda<br/>
CrashPlanDesktop<br/>
</div>

Once you're done with the CrashPlan configuration, you can close the CrashPlan app, the X11.app that appeared in your Dock, and Terminal.app

====Linux====

Starting on your X desktop (Gnome, KDE, ...), open a Terminal (Applications >System > Terminal in Fedora)<br/>
and enter the following commands:

<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 3px 3px 1em 3px;">
ssh -X hda<br/>
CrashPlanDesktop<br/>
</div>

Once you're done with the CrashPlan configuration, you can close the CrashPlan app, and the Terminal.

===Using a local CrashPlan client===

You can follow the instructions on the CrashPlan wiki on [http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/how_to/configure_a_headless_client how to connect to a headless CrashPlan install].

It requires you to install CrashPlan on your client computer, manually editing a config file, and using SSH port forwarding.

===Troubleshooting===
If you have problems running the Desktop UI on the local machine for the first time, enter this command in the terminal:
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sudo chmod 666 /usr/local/crashplan/log/*.log<br/>
</div>
Then try re-running CrashPlanDesktop

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