Do we have an up to date guide for Crashplan, which works?

[diskdiddler]

I'm tempted to hose my entire crashplan install and just start from scratch.
I'd like one which is version 4.5 (or whatever the latest now is?) so I can use the desktop client to talk to it with ease.

My 4.3 crashplan woes went on for ages but I ignored them, because my selections for CP were still pretty robust (an entire /backup/ directory, recursive) so as long as data was put in there, I was ok.

I've now found my crashplan snapshots are 34gb a pop and I'm seeing that somehow, god knows how, my crashplan jail is storing 34gb of data, despite the fact the backup is meant to be going to a server elsewhere (I believe it's actually correctly doing that)

Long story short, is all the crashplan not updating stuff all fixed now? Even if it means I scrap my backups (for the time being, I know I'm safe, I'm ok with that)

 

[danb35]

Best answer I have (and what I'm doing) is to install Ubuntu in a VM somewhere and run crashplan on that. I use NFS exports for the directories on my FreeNAS box that I want to back up, and mount them read-only in the VM. This way, I can run the CrashPlan Desktop app "locally" (via a VNC connection to the VM), rather than the headless method that CrashPlan seems actively, and increasingly, hostile toward. A new installation can "adopt" backups from a previous one, so you should be good there as well.

 

[diskdiddler]

I don't think I can afford the ram to switch to a VM unfortunately :/