Comments on Entropy Overload: CrashPlan manual installation approach on Nexenta

I got everything running now, and it seems to work...

2011-04-21T11:40:27.725+01:00

I got everything running now, and it seems to work sort of. CrashPlan is backup up files, but it seems like it does not register new files.

I added some files this morning, 4 hours ago, but they have not been backed up. Last backup according to the CrashPlan web interface is 17 minutes ago. So it seems everything is working, except it is'nt.

It does work if I remove the backup source, and readd it. Then it finds the new files, but I cant keep doing that.

Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you!

Also, I kept getting this error when trying to con...

2011-04-20T21:23:34.702+01:00

Also, I kept getting this error when trying to connect with CrashPlanDesktop to the headless install

Apr 20 22:05:03 nexentacore sshd[1201]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: setsockopt TCP_NODELAY: Invalid argument

You can fix that by disabling ipv6 in the sshd:

Modifiy: /lib/svc/method/sshd
Find the line "/usr/lib/ssh/sshd" and change it to "/usr/lib/ssh/sshd -4"

Then edit "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" and comment
out "ListenAddress ::" and uncomment "ListenAddress 0.0.0.0"

Execute "svcadm restart ssh" and you are good to go.

I googled the problem, and the solution was to iss...

2011-04-20T18:18:18.657+01:00

I googled the problem, and the solution was to issue the cpio command like this:
cpio -idmv

Thank you for a great writeup, I have encoutered o...

2011-04-20T18:13:57.492+01:00

Thank you for a great writeup, I have encoutered one problem you hopefully can help me with.

When I try to extract the cpio archive, nothing happens...

jk@nexentacore:~/download/CrashPlan-install/t$ cpio -v -i ../test

(I tried with the verbose commande to get some more info, but nothing is happening)

I've let it sit there for 20 minutes, but it does'nt seem to work. The cpio command, just sits there. It does not consume any cpu power.

Any advice?

(I also tried to extract it on my linux box, but excactly the same thing happens there, nothing.

Hi, I've got the crashplan engine running and...

2011-02-16T20:09:32.988Z

Hi,

I've got the crashplan engine running and can connect from my windows machine, but whenever I try to select files to backup, I can't see my zfs volumes (mounted in /volume). Everyone has read access, I can't see any exclusions in the xml config files. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Go ahead with wiki etc., I don't mind. My Cra...

2011-02-11T15:38:02.278Z

Go ahead with wiki etc., I don't mind.

My CrashPlan server stopped too. I'm not sure exactly how the upgrade is trying to do the restart, and I haven't looked into debugging it because I know CrashPlan will send me a notification if more than 3 days go by without a backup contact. Restarting it manually is just a matter of "sudo /etc/init.d/crashplan start". I've symlinked /etc/init.d/crashplan to /etc/init.d/CrashPlan in case it's simply looking for the wrong script to invoke - I seem to recall that the "proper" installation spells it that way - we'll see how it goes.

I just noticed that CrashPlan had stopped running ...

2011-02-11T15:14:05.046Z

I just noticed that CrashPlan had stopped running on the 10th (yesterday). Looking at the logs, it appeared to be that CrashPlan was self-applying the 3.0.2 update, and when it went to restart itself, it shutdown but didn't come back up. I thought I read somewhere that updating was funny, but I don't remember what exactly it said. Does this happen with your installation? Do you have any idea what might cause or remedy this?

Also, would you mind if I posted these instructions on nexenta.org's wiki? I will of course credit you and your blog. I think it would be helpful to get these instructions in a more centralized place for others who might be looking.

With some help, I eventually figured it out. I was...

2011-02-06T22:24:51.298Z

With some help, I eventually figured it out. I was getting a libCrun.so.1 error, and it turns out that it has to do with a dependency bug in Nexenta's apt repository. sunwlibc is a required package for Sun JDK. So I ran:
# aptitude install sunwlibc
The Nexenta FAQ says it works for NCP 2, but I'm running 3.0.1, and it worked for me. Seems to be a bug which has persisted.

Thanks for the great article! Couldn't have done it without it.

Ian - I recommend you post your question on server...

2011-01-30T17:37:39.818Z

Ian - I recommend you post your question on serverfault.com, as essentially you're trying to debug the startup of a service on Nexenta, a variant of Solaris.

Hi, I tried doing this, and it tells me that it...

2011-01-30T17:21:04.807Z

Hi, I tried doing this, and it tells me that it's working, but it's definitely not. What I mean is that the CrashPlanEngine wrapper says
Starting CrashPlan Engine ...
OK
but no process ever appears in top, and I can start it over and over and it doesn't know that it's already supposed to be running. Also if you stop it, it gives an "No such process" error. So it's not actually running something. I am not familiar with debugging this kind of thing at all, so any help you can give me would be great. Thanks!