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Last active August 29, 2015 13:57
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Easily configure and unconfigure the Crashplan client to connect to a headless server, from a Mac client. This could be made much more general but suffices for my needs.
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#!/bin/sh
echo servicePort=4200 >> ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashPlan/ui.properties
echo Open your Crashplan client after the SSH session connects.
# Change $SERVER to the hostname or IP of your server. Or just pause here.
ssh -L 4200:localhost:4243 $SERVER
echo Reverting settings file...
sed -e /servicePort/d -i bak ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashPlan/ui.properties
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