I'm thinking about setting up CrashPlan on my Unraid 4.5.3 server.  Is this still the preffered installation path :http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4008.15.

 

Does the unMenu tool have an option to install this?

 

Thanks,

Chris

on my Unraid 4.5.3 server.

PLEASE upgrade to the latest version of unRAID.  There was a bug in unRAID that, if a user was not careful, would allow them to format all drives at once thereby losing data.

 

Is this still the preffered installation path :http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4008.15.

Yes, that is the only way to get unMenu installed.

 

Does the unMenu tool have an option to install this?

You can install ssh via unMenu as you will need it in later steps but the install of crashplan itself.  There is no easy way to install crashplan at this current time via unMenu (and might not ever be).

Btw I will be installing from and backing up my os x 10.6 MBP.

Btw I will be installing from and backing up my os x 10.6 MBP.

It will work fine.  I backup a couple of Mac OS X computers to my unRAID server using crashplan.

I don't understand why it is neccasary to modify the OS X crashplan application as part of the instructions here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4008.15

 

it says to set this setting:  servicePort=4200

 

What does this do?

 

Do i need to set that before backing up to my unraid, then remove that setting before backing up to 'Crash Plan Central' ?

 

Thanks much

from the fine thread about windows ..... 

Now we need to connect to the engine on your unraid server to add it to your account.

 

- On your windows machine go to your crashplan install directorys conf folder.

- for me this was C:\Program Files\CrashPlan\conf

- edit the file (in wordpad) ui.properties

- this is all commented out on my default windows install, don't worry about that.

- add the following to the bottom :

Code:

servicePort=4200

 

This allows your mac or windows machine to be the display of the gui interface for the unraid server running crashplan.

For more info see:

Connect to a Headless CrashPlan Desktop 

http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/how_to/configure_a_headless_client?s%5B%5D%3Dheadless%26s%5B%5D%3Dlinux

 

 

So just to make sure I understand this.

 

I need to flip that port to 4200 to tell the crash plan client software running on my mac book pro to back up to my unraid; then flip it back to 4243 to tell the client software to backup to crash plan central?

 

This seems like a manually computerized process....

 

Am I missing something or misunderstanding?  I just want to see if this is going to be worth the time/effort to install this if I'm going to have to manually edit property files to support my 'automated backup solution'.

 

Thanks,

Chris

So just to make sure I understand this.

 

I need to flip that port to 4200 to tell the crash plan client software running on my mac book pro to back up to my unraid; then flip it back to 4243 to tell the client software to backup to crash plan central?

 

This seems like a manually computerized process....

 

Am I missing something or misunderstanding?  I just want to see if this is going to be worth the time/effort to install this if I'm going to have to manually edit property files to support my 'automated backup solution'.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

No, the reason for the servicePort=4200 line is to point the application running on your mac to the deamon service running on your unRAID machine.  It allows the application on your mac to act as a GUI for the service running on UNRAID.

 

You will rarely have to do this but it comes in handy every once in a while.

 

 

NOTE: If you want to connect to the deamon that is running on you Mac again you have to remove the servicePort=4200 line.

Ok got it.  Makes much more sense now.  Cool, ill have to dork around with this after I upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.6.

 

Thanks much!