Crashplan

CrashPlan on Amahi

Using CrashPlan on your Amahi HDA will allow you to back up, for free¹, all your computers into your Amahi HDA².
It will also allow you to become the backup server of friends and family, if you'd like.

¹ 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.
² 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 CrashPlan website, where features are explained, and where you can watch CrashPlan in action in their 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

Using VNC

If you have VNC or WebVNC setup, you can use that to configure CrashPlan, 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.

Windows

A Windows-only method to configure CrashPlan is upcoming.

For now, you'll need to use VNC or WebVNC to configure CrashPlan from Windows.

Mac OS X

Open a Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app)
and enter the following commands:

ssh -X hda
CrashPlanDesktop

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

Open a Terminal (Applications >System > Terminal in Fedora)
and enter the following commands:

ssh -X hda
CrashPlanDesktop

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