[HOW TO] FN11: Migrate to CrashPlan 6.6 w/o losing your jail backups

[joerawr]

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[HOW TO] FN11: Migrate to CrashPlan 6.6 w/o losing your jail backups - Install Crashplan 6.6 in an Ubuntu VM with NFS

This guide works for CrashPlan for Small Business, tested with version 6.6. I borrowed heavily from Hazimil’s original resource, and much thanks and kudos to him.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-crashplan-in-an-ubuntu-vm-on-freenas-v11.65/

Goals:
Setup NFS on FreeNAS
Create Ubuntu VM
Mount NFS shares on the VM
Install Crashplan
Optional:...

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[devnullius]

Looks very impressive! Thank you for that : )

1 question: what will we have after we did this? I don't know what Crashplan is and how it's used here? :) Thank you!

 

[danb35]

I don't know what Crashplan is

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/

 

[devnullius]

jeez - thanks, great reply! Really :(

 

[danb35]

What better reply did you expect to "I don't know what Crashplan is"?

 

[millst]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=crashplan

 

[danb35]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=crashplan

And she thought my reply was unhelpful! (-:

 

[TallCoolOne]

Great guide, very detailed, much appreciated!

One question, do you think this would also work for replacing a non-FreeNAS based backup? More specifically an OS X based backup. I am in the process of moving a lot of my data to my NAS from an external Mac drive.

The paths in CrashPlan are unix style, they are stored for me as /Volumes/Vault/…

Would I still be able to use the fstab approach and just do an entry like:

192.168.1.100:/mnt/MyRaidz/Vault /Volumes/Vault nfs ro 0 0

Or would Ubuntu have an issue with that mount point? Or perhaps Crashplan will have an issue because the old backup was an HFS+ based fs?

Thanks!

 

[pale_horse]

Thank you for producing this, it was really helpful!

I would like to add for those that follow, that you need to use a version of Ubuntu with a kernel version of 4.13 if you're using Freenas 11.1. There's a comment here that helped me: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/linux-vm-will-not-boot-with-kernel-4-15.63338/#post-46188. Basically, you need to stick with version 17.10 for the moment - which means you're not getting any security updates, so be careful!

The other thing that threw me is that the shares you create won't show anything that crosses into another dataset i.e. if you have a dataset that starts within an NFS share, that dataset directory and below won't show up in the parent share. This really threw me for a bit until I came across this line:

Code:

Each volume or dataset is considered to be its own filesystem and NFS is not able to cross filesystem boundaries.

on this page: https://doc.freenas.org/11/sharing.html#unix-nfs-shares

 

[TallCoolOne]

Thank you for producing this, it was really helpful!

I would like to add for those that follow, that you need to use a version of Ubuntu with a kernel version of 4.13 if you're using Freenas 11.1. There's a comment here that helped me: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/linux-vm-will-not-boot-with-kernel-4-15.63338/#post-46188. Basically, you need to stick with version 17.10 for the moment - which means you're not getting any security updates, so be careful!

My Ubuntu VM recently got corrupted and I had to redo all this, and ran into the problem you're describing with the kernel version. I just updated my FreeNAS to the latest 11.2 (stable), and the latest Ubuntu (18.04 I think) and everything is working fine.

Also, to answer my own questions from back in February above, this method does indeed work to move backups from a macOS machine to Ubuntu in a VM. I just replicated the paths from the mac in the fstab.