How to install CrashPlan?

[MortenSJ]

Hi

I'm struggling a bit with installing CrashPlan. I've been looking at a few guides and they all have a different way of doing it. I've tried all of them, and nothing seems to work. Is there no official work-around or some guide that is up-to-date and helps a user to get it working?

 

[Nick2253]

The short answer is that there is no guide.

The longer(ish) answer is that the easiest way to get CrashPlan working, at this time, is to create a Linux VM, and install CrashPlan there. That gets you around the problems with the FreeBSD port, which is why so many have so many problems with CrashPlan on this site.

 

[MortenSJ]

Ah okay. Just to be clear of the approach. So. I create Linux VM, install CrashPlan in that Linux VM and do the backup from there through the UI?

Thanks for the answer!

 

[MortenSJ]

By the way. Is there any hardware requirements in running an Ubuntu VM + CrashPlan?

 

[Nick2253]

The hardware requirements are fairly low. It largely depends on how much data you are backing up with CrashPlan.

 

[MortenSJ]

My current setup is only 4gb ram so it's not a lot. I'm planning on backing up quite alot. I have a lot of RAW photos. About 2TB.

 

[adrianwi]

Crashplan recommend about 1GB per TB or 1,000,000 files > https://support.code42.com/CrashPla..._Settings_For_Memory_Usage_With_Large_Backups

If your FreeNAS setup only has 4GB RAM I wouldn't bother, as you're just asking for trouble!

 

[MortenSJ]

Actually, i saw it has 8gb, but i guess it doesn't make much difference, does it?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

No, if your total system RAM is 8GB, you have nothing to spare for a VM.