How do I restart the CrashPlan engine?
There are various ways to restart the CrashPlan engine:
- Restart the computer, or
- Restart from the command line built into the CrashPlan application:
- double-click on the CrashPlan logo in the top right corner of the CrashPlan application
- a small white coloured bar will appear as wide as the application window:
- at the bottom (blue logo, CrashPlan Pro, 2010), or
- at the top (black logo, CrashPlan PROe, 3.x)
- type the word "restart" in that white box and press theEnter key
- the CrashPlan application closes itself after a few seconds
- optional: (re)open the CrashPlan application to check the result
or restart the CrashPlan background service via the operating system:
- On Mac OS X, restart the service via Terminal.app with the command:
$ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist- if an error message appears, first stop the CrashPlan daemon with command:
$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
- if an error message appears, first stop the CrashPlan daemon with command:
- On Windows, restart the service through…
- the graphical user interface:
- [ Start ] > [ Run ] > "services.msc",
- Right click "CrashPlan Backup Service" and choose "Start"
- if "CrashPlan Backup Service" is already started, first select "Stop" and then "Start"
- the command:
> net start CrashPlanService- if an error message appears, first stop the CrashPlan machine with the command:
> net stop CrashPlanService
- if an error message appears, first stop the CrashPlan machine with the command:
- the graphical user interface:
- On Linux, restart the daemon, via…
- using systemd, with a command similar to:
# systemctl restart crashplan.service - otherwise, with a command similar to:
# /usr/local/crashplan/bin/CrashPlanEngine restart
- using systemd, with a command similar to: