#Crashplan tutorial how to
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#Crashplan tutorial software

I normaly choose “No” because I don’t want a string in front of my bucket names. If you have it all configured (don’t forget to set the advanced option!), click the “test connection” button. All three values are unique per tenant, but shared between the clients of one tenant. With this we have all the details we need to know to get the tenant up and running, Port, Access ID and key. This should give you the following output: Logging on to the backup server we can run three commands to see what we need: ps -ef | grep minio If you are granting tenants access, this is also the exact information they need to have to make it all work. Of course, you won’t remember this information from head. *Enable advanced option: s3-ext-forcepathstyle We need to fill in the following items: Storage Type: S3 Compatbile Configuring the connection to the Minio S3 storage backend Leave the AES-256 Encryption selected, it’s how we secure the backup so that only the person with the passphrase can open it later on. With larger data sets creating several smaller jobs is advised. You can choose to backup all your of this host/client in one backup job, or maybe create several. We want to “Configure a new backup”, leave it selected and click “next >”.Įnter a name for the backup. I will be using the “seconduser” we made at the end of the last tutorial for this demonstration installation.Ĭlick the “Add backup” button in the left bar First question dialog of the configuration wizard. Click on settings and select the following: Select the second, darker theme Make sure to hit “OK” when done! Configuring a backup job towards our Minio S3 storage The first thing I always do is change the interface from this white-blue color to a darker theme. You can however make it remotely manageable if you so desire! The default interface Selecting darker theme Don’t worry, by default you can only access it locally, so there is no security risk of anyone else on the network re-configuring your back. One started, the configuration interface opens in your favorite web browser. All done, wizard finish, click finish and the Duplicati 2 interface should open automatically in your favorite browser! Configuring Duplicati 2 Since we know what we are installing, click yes.

#Crashplan tutorial software

Click next to continue It’s open-source software so no harmful terms inside! The software is only 38MB, so installing it to the default C drive location is often best A Windows wizard will pop-up asking you if making system changes is allowed.

#Crashplan tutorial install

You’ll be greeted with an Install Wizard. Once downloading is done, execute the downloaded MSI file. There we select to download the (beta) 2.0 client. To download, we need to go to the following page: If people are interested I could do a Linux tutorial also.

#Crashplan tutorial windows 10

You can find the main index here Downloading the softwareįor demonstration purposes I’m going to use a Windows 10 Pro client but Duplicati 2 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. This post is part of a multi-part article. So now that we have a storage target running for a tenant, let’s install the Duplicati 2 client software and configure a backup!

#Crashplan tutorial how to

ui_info.In the previous article I showed you how to install and configure the server and storage.

Latest crashplan (>4.4.1) will actually use the IP address from.

That's it, you can start crashplan on your remote machine and it will connect properly, there are no other changes neccessary. Įither do this everytime you want to connect, because the token will change after every crashplan restart or use my script from here (for OS X): Ĭopy /var/lib/crashplan/.ui_info to the correct place on your desktop machine and edit the IP address at the end (to your servers address), for example: 4339,7f1d655f-*****,192.168.1.20 The only change on the server necessary for the easiest method without ssh tunnel is the serviceHost tag in /usr/pbi/crashplan-amd64/share/crashplan/conf/my.service.xml. If you finally reach a recent version (>4.4.1), its time to remotely connect to crashplan.

#Crashplan tutorial update

If the update process produces an error related to bash, please run: pkg updateĪnd restart crashplan while checking the log output with the tail -f command from above: In the end you want your Crashplan to update itself anyway. ui_info file in /var/lib/crashplan/.ui_infoĪlthough the jail version is 3.6.3 it's possible that Crashplan updated itself, please check this with: tail -f /usr/pbi/crashplan-amd64/share/crashplan/log/service.log.0 The crashplan remote access behaviour changed several times during the last updates, however with version 3.6.3_1 you should find the.