Something particularly important in this day and age, is Crashplan’s ability to support client side encryption. Other notable features of Crashplan include a truly unlimited backup for a very low cost and that it retains any and all deleted versions of your files forever. It also has unofficial Crashplan headless ports for a number of NAS devices including QNAP, Synology and Netgear’s ReadyNAS. What are the current backup features of Crashplan Headless?Ĭrashplan works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. These can be at a cost, or at no cost depending on which situation suits you best.

Simply put, Crashplan gives you good automatic options for backing up your data. Because a Crashplan headless (no GUI) style of computer performs better and is more stableįoreword To be clear, what does Crashplan Headless do?.To create a backup ‘target’ for other computers on your network to backup to.To backup any data, centralised from your network or specific to your computer to the Crashplan Cloud (this saves money as you don’t need a family plan).Please see comments section at bottom of article for details. I am addressing this and will update this guide when complete. In particular, the guide works, but some hours down the track it breaks. – There are currently issues with the new CrashPlan client / server mix for version 4.5.2 in this configuration.

Please see the ‘Summary Overview’ tab below for a high level view of the objectives this ‘howto’ will achieve.(To Learn how to Install Crashplan on Ubuntu Linux Desktop (with a GUI) please click here).This article will show you how to install Crashplan Headless on Ubuntu Linux.

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