Thanks to forum user Leifgg I finally have CrashPlan working, well of sorts. My laptop is backing up to unRaid and the client says its backed up 6gb, but for the life of me I can't find the data on unRaid. I created a share called Archive and flagged it to use the cache drive.

 

The crash plan client is processing and transferring files but they aren't on the cache drive nor in the user share. The security for the share is public and I can write to it.

 

Is the data encrypted so I can't see it?

You have probably misconfigured the application, and it is writing inside the docker.img. Post screenshots of the docker volume mappings and whatever crashplan has that you used to tell it where to put the backup.

Here you go -

 

As far as I can tell the docker size isn't changing and looking at the unRaid gui there are writes to the cache drive. There is a CP folder in the share which I can only see via terminal.

Do you have a user share called 'archive', no caps, as well??

No. It looks like the backup is staying on my local drive, not sure where.

 

In the guide above it mentions ui.properties which is in /conf. On the mac, that file isn't there, but there is a ui_(yourusername).properties in the parent folder /Library/Application Support/Crash Plan. This file doesn't have the same info as mentioned in the guide - I've pasted the info from the docker ui.properties into the the one my mac but then the app hangs.

I'd create a share called archive and then map Crashplan /data = /mnt/user/archive

 

Then in crashplan choose the backup location as /data

No change - so confused.

If you set your backup location to

archive 

that folder would be located at

/mnt/user/archive

with the mappings you had.

 

If you didn’t create the folder

archive 

yourself I would assume that CrashPlan will created this folder for you. I would also assume that CrashPlan would make this a hidden folder (but I am not sure about these two statements)!

 

Since this is a top level folder I assume it should show up as a User Share under the tab Shares in unRAID GUI.

 

If you can connect to your server with PuTTY (or something similar) and browse to

/mnt/user

and have set it to show hidden files then you should be able to see the folder

archive 

if it exists.

 

If it does, you will find your backup there but don’t expect this to be a normal file copy. CrashPlan has its own compressed backup format that needs to be restored with CrashPlan.