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Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

jonrogersuk — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:27:53 -0000

Thanks for this comment, I hadn't come across this idea. I'm going to have a go at trying it out as I currently have no crashplan on my Pi as there's no longer an ARM compatible build.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Dmitry_Eltechs — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:45:50 -0000

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Re: Tip: Skip the LibreOffice Word Count!

jonrogersuk — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:39:55 -0000

You're right. I've not change this post in the last 4 years when it really bugged me - I'm glad it's fixed if that's the case!

Re: Tip: Skip the LibreOffice Word Count!

Bjoern Michaelsen — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:26:06 -0000

This tip is likely really outdated as it was written against LibreOffice 3.3.x. There have been a lot of fixes to word counts since then in modern versions of LibreOffice, e.g.:
https://bugs.documentfounda...
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Re: About me

Uzair — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:13:49 -0000

Hi Jon

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Ambient711 — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:43:02 -0000

Just wanted to say thanks to Jon Rogers for this tutorial. It worked after a few trys. I know this was posted awhile so these are some tips that I found worked well (for me). Hopefully they work for other people as well.

-This tutorial works best if running Headless (at least in my experience). For some reason I started getting issues with a desktop environment running.

-Copy and paste as many of the commands as possible.

-Do NOT download the current Linux version of CrashPlan( I believe its 3.5.3), instead use 3.2.1(the one in the commands above).

-In part 4. the command "tar –xzf CrashPlan_3.2.1_Linux.tgz" probably wont work on the current version of Raspbian. Instead try gzip -d CrashPlan_3.2.1_Linux.tgz THEN "tar -xf CrashPlan_3.2.1_Linux.tar" ...worked for me.

Again big thanks!

Austin

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

StuJordan — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:54:40 -0000

Thanks Jon that's really useful. Will give it a go.

Re: Fixing Faenza theme battery icons for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

xiaoxie — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:25:58 -0000

Thank you very much!

Re: Logitech MX Revolution on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

Panos — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:40:03 -0000

In xte the key_right is declared as "Right"

Re: How I sync Android and Ubuntu Music and Photos – wirelessly!

jonrogersuk — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:51:34 -0000

To be honest it is just set and forget - it just works overnight and there the photos are. I'm not using it to sync any other media to the phone, just from it.

Re: How I sync Android and Ubuntu Music and Photos – wirelessly!

Aksel Gresvig — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:34:15 -0000

Has this gotten any better over time? I tried something similar using an app called "Syncness" against SMB on my NAS (over wifi), but it was just too inconsistent to use on a regular basis.
I've been on iOS for a year and a half now, will I be positively surprised if I go back to Android now? I'm guessing "no".

It's amazing with all the functionality they cram into Anroid devices these days, that wifi sync isn't a piece of cake to get working.

Re: Fixing Faenza theme battery icons for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Alone — Thu, 02 May 2013 06:32:43 -0000

Thanks a lot! Also working in 13.04!

Re: Strengths of a Really Flat Church

Alistair — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:05:04 -0000

I'm currently involved in a Church plant that is based on the idea of a flat church. The church in Ephesus seemed to be established in this way and then leadership developed within the womb of a flat church. People are called by the spirit to do things and the voice is clear; but sometimes in the lack of leadership they are not empowered and there are certainly cliques that don't come forth and lead; but do ensure their place isn't taken. As a result nobody ever really sets the agenda, the congregants are split into those that are active and those that are not coming forward and are frustrating the active ones. I am fairly critical now because the bubble has to burst; but I am grateful for the initially flat church. IMO it is not worth continuing once the leaders are clear who they are, so in this plant I hope the period in the womb is over and we will have a properly lead group soon.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Spencer — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:42:42 -0000

I use SSH with X forwarding as opposed to headless. To get this to work I had to "apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java" then "cd /usr/local/crashplan/lib; mv swt.jar swt.jar-ORIG; cp /usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.8.0.jar swt.jar" After that is done you can "ssh -Y <ip>" and run "CrashplanDesktop" via X forwarding. For the benefit of Googlers the error before doing this is "Failed to launch CPDesktop; java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-gtk-3557 or swt-gtk" in ui_output.log.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Brad Peterson — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:50:33 -0000

An update, I mentioned below how I had a good 1 TB of data from several computers running on mine. It technically worked, but was slow. I found that when it came to restoring files, the performance was *terrible*. On my situation, it was reporting an estimated restore time of 52 days. I "adopted" it on a normal Linux machine, and that restore took 2 hours.

This performance issue can be fixed. Within the past couple of weeks, Oracle has released an ARM verison preview for Java 8. Apparently the speeds are much better. More info can be found here: http://www.bionoren.com/blo...

I had to remove my existing java installation (I used sudo apt-get purge openjdk-\* icedtea-\* icedtea6-\*), and removed crashplan (I renamed /usr/local/crashplan), and basically start fresh on an install, but it seemed to do the trick. Speeds initially seem much more tolerable.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Tom Nitti — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:59:00 -0000

Worked perfectly for me. Just a heads up to all, the first time you start the engine, it has to generate an RSA keypair, which took about 5-10 minutes on my Pi.

Re: Fixing Faenza theme battery icons for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Nicklasos — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:00:04 -0000

Ok, just need to copy icons from /usr/share/icons/faenza to /use/share/pixmap/guake

Re: Fixing Faenza theme battery icons for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Nicklasos — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:18:35 -0000

Can you do that with guake terminal icon, please? :)

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

jonrogersuk — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:46:45 -0000

Fantastic comment, thanks! When I get a minute I'll try to update the instructions to reflect that useful information.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

MPW — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:42:33 -0000

Hello again,

I missed one thing: Putting the CrashPlanEngine in /etc/rc.local is not that nice. During the installation, you need to overwrite the default rc-folder /etc/rc.d with /etc/rc2.d. Then Crashplan will start automatically on bootup :). This goes for any debian distribution and it derivates like ubuntu and has nothing to do with the raspby.

You can then start and stop the Engine with 'sudo service crashplan start|stop|status'

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

MPW — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:21:23 -0000

Thanks for this post.

Just a few points:

1.) You don't need the whole jre, the openjdk-6-jre-headless is enough. It's much smaller and quicker to install.

2.) The libjtux.so linked here in the post does not work for me Raspberry Debian Wheezy 2012-12-16 hard float. Take this one: https://github.com/download.... The libmd5.so is okay.

3.) The first start of the CrashplanEngine takes about 15-20 min. Don't worry.

The backup runs!

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Justin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:10:59 -0000

I just wanted to say thanks for doing this.. Worked like a charm.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

jonrogersuk — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:43:17 -0000

That's a good idea, but it sounds like a lot of work - I don't even know where I'd begin.

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Brad — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:36:47 -0000

awesome work. Anyone know how to set up the pi at a friends house and use the remote feature of crashplan?

Re: Crashplan on the Raspberry Pi

Martin — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:16:00 -0000

how come you havent made an RPi Debian package for all this ? What would really be nice and sweet :-)