I’ve gotten a number of comments about CrashPlan not working lately. This no longer fits with the “free if you do it yourself” theme of this blog series, so I am an throwing in the towel. It is no longer written in pure Java, some key libraries are only available for Linux running on x86 architectures, and Code42 has eliminated the free home-user product from their offerings meaning that you’ll have to pay for a subscription in order to keep using CrashPlan at all. I’m leaving this here for posterity, but the simple fact is that CrashPlan is no longer a viable option on the Pi. If you run into trouble, reboot and try again. Initially my service wouldn’t start, but after a reboot it worked just fine. My most recent version was swt-gtk-3.8.2.jar, rather than the …3.8.0 from the original installation. There is a newer version of the standard widget toolkit (SWT) in the current installer, so after installing it, take a look in your /usr/lib/java folder to see what version you have.

Updates: It is no longer necessary to replace the Java Runtime Engine since the newer installer doesn’t seem to include it anymore, so skip removing /usr/local/crashplan/jre, which doesn’t even exist, and don’t create the symbolic link.

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Code42 upgrade