ReadyNAS Vault : great but overpriced!

Except that Amazon isn't $125/yr for a TB, it's $125/month, or $1500/yr. Still a big difference, but the "value-added" may be worth it when comparing those two. (Not me, I use Crashplan)

What is Crashplan ?

StGeorge wrote:
What is Crashplan ?

Backup as much as you want, including unlimited revisions, for $50 a year max

www.crashplan.com

Did you set that up as a "Headless Crashplan Desktop" ?

Yes - search the forum here, there are full installation instructions

Requires SSH to be enabled and some command line work, but once running all is GUI controlled

sphardy wrote:
Yes - search the forum here, there are full installation instructions Requires SSH to be enabled and some command line work, but once running all is GUI controlled

Can someone (you) write a full Crashplan installer for the Readynas? Command line work for non linux users is daunting.

Frankly I'd prefer a Jungldisk solution. Jungledisk does a better job covering end user and business needs. They also have fewer restrictions on use. Finally, no Java!

claykin wrote:
Can someone (you) write a full Crashplan installer for the Readynas? Command line work for non linux users is daunting.

As much as i would like to (this would make a great addon) I simply don't have the time to put into this.

Frankly I'd prefer a Jungldisk solution. Jungledisk does a better job covering end user and business needs. They also have fewer restrictions on use. Finally, no Java!

I personally chose CrashPlan for the the points you appear critical of:

I'm not aware of any restrictions as I have been able to backup as much data as I want, with as many revisions as I require, all for a single annual fee. Maybe JD would have been cheaper for me, but I couldn't be bothered working out the costs with the various storage providers when CP offered something so simple. I'm sure you are correct that JD offers something CP doesn't, but I've yet to find anything that limits me personally.

The fact CP is based on Java actually makes it very easy to install as the installation of Java is the only dependency and there are multiple explanations of how to do that on the forum. I briefly looked at JD and the installation appeared far more complex due to dependencies and setting up licensing etc. Certainly I found no simple "How to run Headless" instructions as provided by CrashPlan

@claykin: Maybe this helps? viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61152

sphardy wrote:
@claykin: Maybe this helps? viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61152

My unix skills are extremely rusty, I found bishoptf's step-by-step to be very helpful. :D

Now of course there are terabytes to upload... But I will very happy to have a solid disaster recovery plan in place. BTW, there is also a free mobile client (Android and iPhone) which looks useful.

If you are US based then CP offers a seeding option - they'll ship a disk that you can backup to and send back to CP to act as the initial backup