Deactivate your units and your account in “My backup” (Crashplan)

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  1. Log in to Crashplan via this page: Login (crashplan.com)Here you will be able to deactivate the units that you have saved in Crashplan. When you deactivate the devices, your account is also terminated. If you have not activated any devices, your account will be terminated anyway.
  2. Log in with your umu ID: umuid@umu.se
  3. Click on “Devices” and then on your computer name under “Device Name”, see the red marks:

 

 

 

3. In this view, click on the gear in the upper right corner and then “Disable”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. A box will appear asking if you want to disable the device. Check the box “I understand that the device archive will be deleted.” and then click OK and you are done!

Checking your backup from the “My Backup” (Crashplan) service

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This is a manual for checking that your backup process is working via the “My Backup” (Crashplan) service The information in the manual is applicable for both Windows and MacOS users.

Via login on the website

  1. Go to https://console.eu5.cpg.crashplan.com/ in a web browser
  2. Log in with your umuid@umu.se (Observe that the loginname is @umu.se not @ad.umu.se, and not your email) .
  3. Once logged in, click on Devices and then click on your device (computer name).

  4. Check the size of the backup, the backup status, and when it was last run.
  5. Under History, heck that the backup is running and that there are no error messages.(NOTE: 0MB could mean that no files have changed since the last backup)

Via the program on your computer

  1. Open the program via the Start menuYou will be redirected to the Umu website for login, where you log in with your Umu-id.
  2. Check that there is a green tick and when the backup was last run.

It is only possible to restore a file via the program on your computer.

  1. Try to restore a file by clicking on Restore Files.
  2. Select a file/folder to restore, preferably a single file that is not very large. When trying it for the first time, take a less important file.
  3. Restore it to a different location (a different location than where the file is currently located) so that it does not overwrite an important file.

Check which files are being backed up

By default, the setting is to back up the Documents folder on your computer, nothing more.

If you want to change this or back up more folders, click on the “Manage Files button.

There, you can select additional folders.

Starting a backup manually

Open My Backup (Crashplan) on the computer and click on “Run Backup”.