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CrashPlan Simple Install

CrashPlan is a great backup service allowing local, remote, and premium hosted backups. They even support Windows, Mac, and Linux.

While I can't speak to the install experience for Windows or Mac, on Linux, it's horrible.

It's an interactive install that doesn't take any flags to accept defaults. As a Ubuntu user, there is a new version every 6 months and to make the upgrade process easier, I bash script the installation of all my core programs so I can reformat and be back up an running with ease.

This bash script will download a recent version, untar it, and install it with all the defaults.

	#!/bin/sh
	# # tail /var/log/disk-write-stats.log
	# 2021-02-15 13:39:30 Written: mmcblk1p1 [512 B] mmcblk1p2 [150 MB] sda [1.61 TB]
	# 2021-02-16 04:00:22 Written: mmcblk1p1 [512 B] mmcblk1p2 [163 MB] sda [1.96 TB]
	# 2021-02-17 04:00:00 Written: mmcblk1p1 [512 B] mmcblk1p2 [179 MB] sda [2.52 TB]
	#
	# installation:
	# # nano /usr/bin/log-write-stats.sh; chmod +x /usr/bin/log-write-stats.sh
	# # nano /etc/systemd/system/log-write-stats.service
	# # /etc/systemd/system/log-write-stats.timer files

	# Paste this in: /usr/lib/systemd/system/crashplan-server.service
	# Then: # systemctl enable --now crashplan-server

	[Unit]
	Description=CrashPlanPROe 3.x server
	After=network.target

	[Service]
	Type=forking
	PIDFile=/opt/proserver/proserver.pid

	#!/bin/bash
	# nano /opt/proserver/bin/restore_database.sh;chmod 700 /opt/proserver/bin/restore_database.sh

	#################################################################
	# Basic setup
	#################################################################
	importLog=$PWD/import.log

	# Find .install.vars and set variables based on their contents
	INSTALL_VARS_DIR="$(dirname `ls -l $0 \| awk '{ print $NF }'`)/.."

	## Paste this into: /usr/lib/systemd/system/crashplan.service
	## Then:
	# /usr/local/crashplan/bin/CrashPlanEngine stop
	# systemctl enable --now crashplan
	## Check whether it is running:
	# systemctl status crashplan

	[Unit]
	Description=CrashPlan backup engine
	After=network.target