Important Note Code42 has removed headless functionality in the latest v6 release of CrashPlan for Small Business (formerly CrashPlan Pro). Existing docker instances may still continue to run for a while, but this ultimately marks the death of any sort of CrashPlan backup for Synology. https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/6/Get_started/Changes_to_the_Code42_app_in_version_6 I recommend using BackBlaze B2 with Synology’s Cloud Sync […]
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Fixing CrashPlan 4.3.0 on Synology
CrashPlan Issue For Synology – Fixing the 4.3.0 update If your Synology NAS can run docker, you may want to consider an alternative to the CrashPlan package. See here: CrashPlan and CrashPlan Pro on Synology using Docker Note, see bottom of page for information on DSM 6 and CrashPlan 4.6.0 Recently CrashPlan updated to version […]
Fixing CrashPlan 4.2.0 on Synology after DSM 5.2 update
The latest round of updates from CrashPlan (4.3.0) has broken the CrashPlan package on Synology again. Please see http://chrisnelson.ca/2015/07/02/fixing-crashplan-4-3-0-on-synology/ for the newest instructions. Archived information for 4.2: After installing Synology DSM 5.2, CrashPlan recently pushed an update (4.2.0) which broke the CrashPlan package Patters had created for Synology. The log for the failing CrashPlan package […]
Fixing CrashPlan on Synology after the 3.7.0 update (Synology repairing upgrade in /var/packages/CrashPlan/target/upgrade/1388728800370. )
If you recently upgraded to DSM 5.2 and had CrashPlan break, this is likely due to the CrashPlan 4.2.0 update. Please see http://chrisnelson.ca/2015/05/12/fixing-crashplan-4-2-0-on-synology-after-dsm-5-2-update/ NOTE: This manual fix should no longer be needed after the 0029 update from Patters: 0029 Updated to CrashPlan version 3.7.0, improved detection of temp folder (prevent use of /var/@tmp), added support […]
Backing up data on AWS EC2 Micro instances using the CrashPlan headless Linux client
I’ve been using a combination of scripts to do local backups on my Amazon EC2 micro instance I use to serve this website – AutoMySQL Backup and some cron jobs which ran rsync for various paths on a rotation. For example: This is frankly a pretty lazy way to do it. I’m not protected at […]