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How to uninstall CrashPlan Debian

I wanted to update CrashPlan to the latest version. So I download the latest Linux install and what I found after attempting to install was that I needed to uninstall the existing version before installing the new one. The following steps Stop the CrashPlan process from running /etc/init.d/crashplan stop Manually delete the following directories /usr/local/crashplan […]

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How-To Software Technical

CrashPlan – “Adopt” Option Disappeared

Today I found myself updating CrashPlan on my headless server and client computers. In doing so I needed to Uninstall CrashPlan to install the latest release. I found after this I needed to adopt the backup however I someone lost the option to do so. The following steps need to be done via the connected […]

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How-To Software Technical

Backup your WordPress Blog using Dropbox

I normally backup my WordPress site using the export command and save it to my Dropbox account in case I need it at a later date. However this does not backup plugins and content. Most of my posts I use image hosting as a makeshift CDN to avoid storing them on my server. I started […]

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CrashPlan Features Tour: Explore Online Backup Features

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Personal Technical

Saving Private RAID ‘en

Over a week now I have been having serious performance issues with my private SAN (I am using OpenMediaVault) here at home. I noticed the issues and reviewed everything from services to software recently updated. Later to discover one of my HDD (Hard Disk Drives) in my RAID set were having issues The symptoms were that all […]

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Crashplan, I choose you

Back at home I use Open Media Vault as my NAS (Network Attached Storage solution to store and serve up my media and documents to my computers and devices. Open Media Vault (OMV) gives me all the things I need with one single exception; that’s backups. So at home I backup to USB disks, but what if there was […]