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How to pause crashplan on Mac OS X
Aug 17th
Crashplan on Windows has a taskbar icon that lets you put the backup daemon to sleep, but the Mac OS X port doesn’t seem to have this functionality.
You can’t just kill the backup daemon process. The OS X “launchd” superviser daemon will see the process go away, and immediately respawn the process. You have to tell launchd to stop the backup daemon by using the launchctl command:
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
The crashplan daemon will start again after you reboot, or you manually restart it:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
Installing CrashPlan on Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition
May 19th
Although rsnapshot is super for linux-to-linux backups, I’ve found CrashPlan to work very well as a backup solution for my family’s windows and mac boxes.
The CrashPlan installation works pretty well on ubuntu desktop edition, as all the necessary packages are already there. The server edition fails quietly, though.
Run these steps before you install CrashPlan, and everything should be smooth:
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