Crashplan
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ECE Crashplan PROe
Crashplan PROe is an automatic desktop backup solution provided as a service to ECE faculty and staff. CrashPlan PROe is simple to use, automatic, and secure. Users can control and restore their backups through a desktop client or web browser interface.
Features
- Up to four devices per user
- Multi-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux, Mobile)
- Continuous, background backup
- Unlimited backup space
- Uses any network (campus, home, abroad)
- Backup data is encrypted
- Easy to use web interface to manage backups, perform restores
Getting started
- Create or update your ECE Account
- Contact the ECE IT Team to request a Crashplan account. Please include your ECE username.
- You will receive an email when your Crashplan PROe account is ready.
Installation
Please signup for before downloading the ECE Crashplan App.
Windows
- Download the Windows x64 ECE Crashplan or Windows x32 ECE Crashplan app.
- Goto your download folder and unzip CrashPlanPROe-x64_Win.zip
- Open CrashPlanPROe-x64_Win.exe and install with default options
- Crashplan should open automatically after the install is finished.
- If this is the first time installing Crashplan, choose the register option and fill in your ECE account information
- Otherwise, select the Existing option and enter your ECE account credentials
OS X
- Download the OS X ECE Crashplan app.
- Goto your download folder and open CrashPlanPROe_Mac.dmg
- Select the Crashplan mount and install with default options
- Crashplan should open automatically after the install is finished.
- Note: There is currently a bug that does not display the customized text properly, please close and reopen Crashplan to see the correct text
- If this is the first time installing Crashplan, choose the register option and fill in your ECE account information
- Otherwise, select the Existing option and enter your ECE account credentials
Linux
- Download the Linux ECE Crashplan app.
- Goto your download folder and untar CrashPlanPROe_Linux.tgz
- tar -xzvf CrashPlanPROe_Linux.tgz
- Goto the CrashPlanPROe-install folder and run install.sh and install with default options
- Crashplan should open automatically after the install is finished.
- If this is the first time installing Crashplan, choose the register option and fill in your ECE account information
- Otherwise, select the Existing option and enter your ECE account credentials