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tony359
May 23, 2015Apprentice
Backup plan
Hi all, Over the years I have stored all my docs, email, photos on my computer. A few years ago I moved from a single disk to a RAID box and everything has been RAID-5 since. However I then underst...
StephenB
May 31, 2015Guru - Experienced User
I did it quite a while ago now on my pro-6 (OS4) - it wasn't as difficult as the posts made it look. It's been running well for a couple years now.
Creating a clean guide in a new thread would be useful. This blog outlines the steps, and could be useful to you (though some steps are ARM specific): http://blog.andrewkoebbe.com/posts/2014 ... dynas-102/
I don't recommend putting the default archive location on the OS partition, so I'd change that particular answer to a data partition folder. Also it is possible to move the cache onto the data partition after the install, which is worth doing as well.
BTW, there is another approach you can take that completely avoids the need to install on the NAS.
http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... For_Backup
http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... work_Drive
Note the mounting commands described in these links are ordinary. The key thing is that the drives are mounted by SYSTEM not the normal user. Although code42 won't support these methods (the links are clear on that), they are allowed by the license terms (otherwise they won't have posted them on their support site).
Creating a clean guide in a new thread would be useful. This blog outlines the steps, and could be useful to you (though some steps are ARM specific): http://blog.andrewkoebbe.com/posts/2014 ... dynas-102/
I don't recommend putting the default archive location on the OS partition, so I'd change that particular answer to a data partition folder. Also it is possible to move the cache onto the data partition after the install, which is worth doing as well.
BTW, there is another approach you can take that completely avoids the need to install on the NAS.
http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... For_Backup
http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... work_Drive
Note the mounting commands described in these links are ordinary. The key thing is that the drives are mounted by SYSTEM not the normal user. Although code42 won't support these methods (the links are clear on that), they are allowed by the license terms (otherwise they won't have posted them on their support site).
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