I needed to setup Crashplan on my local linux server which is acting as an NFS and SMB server for all my media. As this is a headless server and the CrashPlan app doesnt have a cli, this is how to access it remotely.
Install Instructions:
Download the latest version of the app.
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[email protected]:~/$ wget https://download.code42.com/installs/linux/install/CrashPlan/CrashPlan_4.3.0_Linux.tgz
Extract the archive
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[email protected]:~/$ tar -zxvf CrashPlan_4.3.0_Linux.tgz
Change into the directory
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[email protected]:~/$ cd CrashPlan-install
Run the installer
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[email protected]:~/$ sudo ./install.sh
You can accept most of the defaults, but you can change the back up location if you want.
Now you need to copy a file from the remote host to the host which you’ll be running the app from. In this instance, it’ll be my laptop. Remember to make a back up of your original config though before doing anything.
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[email protected]:~/$ mv /var/lib/crashplan/.ui_info /var/lib/crashplan/.ui_info.orig
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[email protected]:~/$ scp [email protected]:/var/lib/crashplan/.ui_info /var/lib/crashplan/.ui_info
You now need to change the port in the .ui_info. You need to change it from 4232 to 4200.
This file consists of the port and an auth key. The port is the first 4 numbers, before the comma.
Once thats complete, you now need to setup and ssh tunnel on your local machine.
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[email protected]:~/$ ssh -L 4200:localhost:4243 [email protected]
Now just load up the application and it’ll be connected to the remote host.
When you are finished working on the remote host, you just need to move the .ui_info’s around again.