Check for Linux installation instructions. Please take into account the download URL might change. Install CrashPlanĪt this point, we are ready to install CrashPlan. To add this user to the sudoers list, edit the list by: /etc/sudoersĪdd the line ‘ ALL=(ALL) ALL’ to this file and test SSH login and sudo permissions. Type in the new user password and you are done with the account setup. Now we need to add your user to ssh users and sudoers, so you can connect to the jail. SSH is installed on your new Jail but it is not running. You will need a working SSH connection to your jail, to connect a CrashPlan client from an external (GUI capable) machine (such as Windows or Mac). Which should bring up the jail CentOS prompt. To access the jail run (as root or sudo): $ jexec 1 /bin/bash The JID is your new jail logical ID (you might see several jails in this list, look for your new CrashPlan jail). When your jail is up and running, access it (SSH to your FreeNAS or use the shell in the web UI) and display the Jails list: $ jlsġ 192.168.1.63 Linux_COS /mnt/Data/jails/CrashPlan I’ve kept all the other default options as is, as seen in the attached screenshot.įew seconds later a new jail will be created and added to your available jails list under the main jails menu. You click on “Add Jails” under the main Jails menus and make sure you select “centos-6.4” from the Jail type drop-down. Run it on your own risk. I assume CrashPlan team will be able to provide basic support as long as you don’t mention this is a FreeBSD jail. I have no intention to support it, take any responsibility to any outcome or to any case of data lost. I’ve spend 2 good days to make it just work and then decided to ditch it and give CentOS a try, which led me to the below process.ĭeclaimer: This is unofficial and unsupported process. The Ubuntu Jail is completely broken and I don’t recommend it for anything! it’s missing tons of basic settings and binaries and the network is a complete mess. The first attempt was with the Ubuntu Jail template, which failed miserably, even before the CrashPlan part. While that was the end of the official CrashPlan plugin path, the fact this is a FreeBSD issue and the discovery (during my research) that there is an option to run not only a FreeBSD jail but a Linux one, I’ve decided to give it a try (although in theory, technically it doesn’t make sense, since all Jails eventually use the same file system). Some of the posts I read mentioned that, most likely, this is a FreeBSD related issue and after contacting CrashPlan’s support (I have a pro account) and having some email exchange with them, they offered me a full refund for my paid account and admitted they don’t plan to support FreeBSD or FreeNAS for Non-ASCII folder and files. Searching the internet for a solution, brought several posts regarding similar issues (not necessarily with Hebrew but with other Non-ASCII languages), all of them mentioning system LOCALE, environment variables and UTF-8 but after playing for hours with the plugin’s Jail setup and making sure all settings are UTF-8, I still was not able to make CrashPlan backup my Hebrew folder and files. The CrashPlan UI could not read those files or was messing between folders and files and all sort of weird issues that prevented me from backing up my most valuable assets (mainly photos and music). While the install process of the official plugin is very simple and you can get a running CrashPlan in less than 5 min, I had real show stopper with my backup files list, since many of the files and folders I have are using Hebrew names. I could not be any more wrong than that…. Since I’ve been using CrashPlan for years and there is an official plugin for CrashPlan, available for FreeNAS users, I thought my search was ended. After looking at some options, I’ve selected FreeNAS as the base for my setup and after finding a used HP ProLiant MicroServer (great little server for Home and SOHO NAS), I’ve setup my home NAS in few hours of work.Īfter moving all my data to the new NAS and setting up an external drive for local backups, I have started to look for an offsite backup solution for the system. I always wanted to have a centralized storage at home, for all my Photos, Documents and Media files, so I can share them across all devices on my network. So how did I setup my CrashPlan FreeNAS? Keep on reading. Usually this blog is in Hebrew, but this time, since the post is not cloud related and more important very relevant for everybody and not only Hebrew speakers, I’ve decided to do this post in English.
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