When I close Putty or exit SSH, the desktop application terminates and the CrashPlanEngine and backup seen to stop too. When I establish either an SSH tunnel to my Diskstation or use Putty and specify the tunneling through Putty, the CP Desktop app is able to connect to the Engine.
Using the Crashplan Desktop on my PC I have browsed the directory structure of the NAS so /Volume1/Documents for example and have specified the 4 folders that I would like to be backed up. You should go with the 32 Desktop client as well if you are having trouble connecting to the server.
Some has reported that using a 64 bit desktop client against a 32 bit headleass client doesn't work. Follow the instructions in the crashplan website for this ( )
Install your desktop client and point it towards the headless service you just installed.(Thanks to "kungfu" for this comment / hint) If you edit /etc/rc.local and add "/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99crashplan start" without quotes, it seems to load after restart. If your crashplan engine doesn't start up automatically you can add it to rc.local which works.Validate that your service is running: netstat -an | grep ':424.' should give to listeners:.Start your crashplan service /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99crashplan start.
(sed -i 's/ps -eo /ps /' CrashPlanEngine sed -i 's/ps -p /ps /' CrashPlanEngine)
You need to installe ipkg in order to do so.
Default password is synopass or the same password as your admin account.
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