Carbonite on Wine?

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:46 am

Is it forseeably possible to get Carbonite Online Backup running in Wine?

This is something I've wanted to get working in Wine for quite a while now and have tried to do so every now and then (I think as far back as last year). Just now bringing this to the forums.

I tried it again today and earlier this week with Wine 1.3.35. Nothing visible other than endless babbling outputting from terminal occurs. I pasted a whopping 65 KB worth of this babbling here: http://pastebin.com/t76nWARh

Anyone can waltz right up to carbonite.com and download a free trial installer, though you do have to create an account.

If you open this installer with an archive manager, you can see that it is made mostly of java scipts. One of these is Installation.js, which I'm guessing is the one that starts it all off.

It seems like I remember reading somewhere that Carbonite depends on IE somehow.

Anyways, Carbonite on Linux would be absolutely fantastic! I guess I'll move to Crashplan if I want unlimited backup for Linux if Carbonite doesn't pan out in Wine. It's just that there are lots of people who have already bought subscriptions to Carbonite and then moved to Linux or and then found out about unlimited backup for Linux (like guess who... me). At the time, I think Carbonite was the only one that was offering unlimited backup that cheap. I actually just found out about Crashplan today because I was about to write that after much research Carbonite is the only relatively cheap unlimited online backup. Then I thought, "I better double check. Things change, and that research was from last year." And what do you know? Crashplan. They even have a Solaris version.

Cheers,
Jake

lahmbi5678 · Post by **lahmbi5678** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:33 am

This seems like a bug/missing functionality in wine:

fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported.
err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"Z:\\home\\shjake\\Desktop\\CarboniteSetup-en.exe" failed with error 0

Please file a bug, even if you don't want to use Carbonite in the future.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:10 pm

Thank you very much lahmbi5678 for your reply! And yes I would like to use Carbonite in the future; I already paid for it!

I've never submitted a bug report before...literally. Not even for anything other than Wine. There's several for Wine I've been meaning to submit, but for one college has been keeping me busy. Now that it's break I want to squeeze a few in.

I've read up on some of the (maybe all) "submit a Wine bug" Howtos/ tips, but one time when I tried to submit a bug, I found out that you're supposed to know which part of Wine broke, to which I have no idea. How do I find out which part of Wine broke? Is there a debugger parameter for that?

I'd like to get the skill of submitting bugs down so that I can submit all these bugs I keep finding. That might sound like an obvious/ moot statement, but I mean it.

Jake

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:15 pm

SpawnHappyJake wrote:I've read up on some of the (maybe all) "submit a Wine bug" Howtos/ tips, but one time when I tried to submit a bug, I found out that you're supposed to know which part of Wine broke, to which I have no idea.

It's helpful if you know the component, but not required to file a bug. Just select "unknown" for that field.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:47 am

Thanks Dimesio! I just submitted my first bug report!

I hope it's done right; I read the howto. How did I do?: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29436

Thanks again,

Enjoy this day!
Jake

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:11 am

Uhh...don't answer that question. Just found something I overlooked. I'll fix it.

Jake

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:41 am

Your test with a clean wineprefix/no IE should have been done with wine-gecko installed.

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 6:40 pm

Ok, I can do that tonight when I get to my "unlimited" download/upload time. It just takes a while for Gecko to download and install, which is why I skipped it. I'll have to go in and do that trick that makes it so you only have to download Gecko once, rather than once per new prefix.

Jake

SpawnHappyJake · Post by **SpawnHappyJake** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:38 pm

It's done. I attached a new terminal output from running the Carbonite installer in a fresh prefix with Gecko and 0% Microsoft IE.

Thanks for bearing with me on my first bug report.
I'm assuming Gecko is supposed to be installed for all bug reports?

Jake

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