Local unrar

useful - yes.
efficient - not so sure.

not sure how the cpu in the nas would handle that work. would you want to unrar a 700mb file, taking 5mins, and making your nas completely unusable for everyone during that time?

i personally have my stuff on gigabit, so i dont mind unraring over the network, even 4gb does not take very long at gigabit speeds. but to each his own...

Now that is a BitTorrent client, I think this would be most helpful.
Kinda like newgroups downloader with Urd feature request.

The process of unpacking could be run in low priority mode.

I installed unrar awhile ago and have been using it with no issues.

apt-get install unrar

Hi,

I downloaded rar 3.71 for linux from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm. I placed it in the admin home directory, before decompressing (gunzip -d) it and then extracting it (tar -xvf). I copied the rar file and unrar file to /usr/local/bin and when i went to run them i got the following error "cannot execute binary file". The file has execute permissions. When I file'd the file i received the following; 'ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped'. I also tried 'make install' but not luck. Could you please assist. Thank you.

some additional info

ReadyNAS NV +
uname -a # Linux readynas 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS #1 Wed Feb 13 13:49:24 PST 2008 padre unknown
firmware # RAIDiator 4.01c1-p1 [1.00a041]

The ReadyNAS has a SPARC CPU, you installed a binary for Intel x86. This has no chance of working, remove the binary and use the apt-get approach described by chirpa instead.

(You will need the APT-add-on for that).

Thank you Zappes,

Initially I did try this, and on attempting "apt-get install unrar", I received the following;

You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
unrar: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6.infrant1 is to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12) but 1:3.4.3-13 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installable
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://packages.debian.org readynas/ Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.debian.org_stable_utils_readynas_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I'm not confident enough to simply try the apt-get update and don't know much about all the C type stuff above.

The First two packages appear to be installed (see below), however the libstdc++6 is not.
readynas:/# dpkg -s libgcc1
Package: libgcc1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 152
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
Source: gcc-3.4 (3.4.3-13)
Version: 1:3.4.3-13
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21)
Description: GCC support library
Shared version of the support library, a library of internal subroutines
that GCC uses to overcome shortcomings of particular machines, or
special needs for some languages.

readynas:/# dpkg -s libstdc++6
Package `libstdc++6' is not installed and no info is available.

Any assistance in where to go from here will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Doing "apt-get update" will not hurt you - trying something like "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" may be a bit of a problem, though, so better avoid those. ;)

I just did an apt-get update followed by apt-get install unrar and it works like a charm.

Edit: You might want to install the latest beta firmware, though - I don't know which kinds of dependencies might not be satisfied by the earlier versions as I use T136 on my box.

Thanks Zappes, I will give this a try the next time I am at home as my home modem is been stubbrn and not forwarding ports.

I gigantic thread lift, but I thought I could contribute some numbers for reference.

39GB took approximately 1hr49m to unrar. Meaning that you will average about 0.35GB/min on the NV+.

I've got this all installed, but I have no idea how to actually initiate an unrar... is there a way to set up a watch folder, where any rar files will automatically be unrar'd?
Thanks in advance for any help!