Baremetal Install

Crashplan Pro (For Small Business) is now the only consumer level option for crashplan.

Requirement	Recommended	Reality
Memory	2GB	5GB
CPU	1c@2Ghz 64bit	2c/4t@3Ghz 64bit
Disk	2GB	6GB

Ports

Files

Install

Assumes Ubuntu installed with a local user account, with backup data mounted on /data.

Note

Crashplan should run as root to read all backup files. If using LXC containers, you must run as privileged (unprivileged: 0) or use idmap to map all permissions to the container; otherwise mounted data will appear empty.

Backup locations should be mounted read only if possible.

Dependencies

Install crashplan service/GUI dependencies.

apt install libgconf-2-4 libnss3 libasound2 xfce4

Increase inotify limits, see: Inotify Limits.

SSHD Config

Only required for LXC/KVM. By default PVE will try to forward X11 to own displays if X11UserLocalhost yes is set.

Reference

0644 root root /etc/ssh/sshd_config

X11UserLocalhost no

Install Service/GUI

Install crashplan service and reboot.

wget https://download.code42.com/installs/agent/cloud/8.6.1/3/install/CrashPlanSmb_8.6.1_1525200006861_3_Linux.tgz
tar xvf CrashPlanSmb_8.6.1_1525200006861_3_Linux.tgz
cd code42-install
./install.sh -q
reboot

Note

Latest installer/URL: https://www.crashplanpro.com/app/#/console/app-downloads

In practice, machines required a reboot before the service would properly function. -q installs accepting the defaults, which work in almost all cases.

Connect to GUI

Done through SSH forwarding. See Putty Configuration for initial Putty, VcXsrv install.

No specific Linux setup is required other than running an xserver.

Windows

Open GUI client through ssh.

ssh -X {USER}@{HOST}
/usr/local/crashplan/bin/desktop.sh

Import existing backup configuration with Backup Set Adoption.

Reference