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I've been using CrashPlan since 2014 to back up my ReadyNAS (about 9 TBytes used out of 20 TByte capacity). It's been great. Unlimited, continuous, encrypted, versioning backups running on the Read...
Thanks to all those who replied.
Sadly, from these responses and my other inquiries, it seems that CrashPlan, even at twice the old price, is still the only viable solution for my case. Everything else either--and there are lots of other options--doesn't run under Linux or has a monthly cost for my use case that is an order of magnitude or more higher than even CrashPlan Pro.
The closest, widely-discussed alternative is BackBlaze. Unfortunately, their personal plan which is unlimited, inexpensive, and seems generally good, does not run under Linux. They do have a well-regarded B2 Cloud Storage plan which has multiple clients which might run om ReadyNAS, but it has a metered cost that would be much more expensive than CrashPlan Pro. The implication of discussions by the Backblaze CEO is that they have no plans to change either.
So when my CrashPlan Home plan expires at the end of the year, I plan to transition to CrashPlan Pro/SMB.
But if somebody comes up with something better (ideally before then!), please do respond here.
I migrated to the small business version of crashplan today and all seemed well but the readynas was still running home edition. It would not update so I did it manually and now it does not work at all. The server starts but stops. Tried endless fixes but no joy. Crashplan no longer support ARM processors so no help coming from them. It was initially a Java issue but I fixed that but now it's something else I have no idea!
Thanks to all those who replied.
Sadly, from these responses and my other inquiries, it seems that CrashPlan, even at twice the old price, is still the only viable solution for my case. Everything else either--and there are lots of other options--doesn't run under Linux or has a monthly cost for my use case that is an order of magnitude or more higher than even CrashPlan Pro.
The closest, widely-discussed alternative is BackBlaze. Unfortunately, their personal plan which is unlimited, inexpensive, and seems generally good, does not run under Linux. They do have a well-regarded B2 Cloud Storage plan which has multiple clients which might run om ReadyNAS, but it has a metered cost that would be much more expensive than CrashPlan Pro. The implication of discussions by the Backblaze CEO is that they have no plans to change either.
So when my CrashPlan Home plan expires at the end of the year, I plan to transition to CrashPlan Pro/SMB.
But if somebody comes up with something better (ideally before then!), please do respond here.
Just a heads up for anybody who is planning on migrating to Crashplan Pro (small business) and you have an ARM based readynas.
There are some parts of the JAVA libraries that install with crashplan that are x86 or AMD64 only. These before have been able to be replaced [libjtux.so & libmd5.so] by ARM compatible libraries. It seems now, however crashplan requires another one named libc42archive.so. This is, as you can see from the name, compiled by Code42 so I have not been able to find an ARM alternative. This means that, unless anybody else has found a fix for ARM based NAS, Crashplan is dead for me and everybody else with ARM based NAS.
Just in case people want to know what happens when you get to this point in the install - the program runs fine on the NAS, shows as active and runs without closing. When you try and log in to Crashplan from, in my case, the headless part you get a SYSTEM ERROR when trying to log in. The log in the nas drive shows
SEVERE: Service AuthorizedStorageService [FAILED] has failed in the STARTING state.
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'c42archive': /usr/local/crashplan/libc42archive.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.loadLibrary(NativeLibrary.java:164)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getInstance(NativeLibrary.java:237)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getInstance(NativeLibrary.java:200)
at com.sun.jna.Native.register(Native.java:1016)
at com.code42.archive.jna.Archive42JNA.<clinit>(Archive42JNA.java:17)
at com.code42.archive.jna.ArchiveComparator.getV2VirtualTableComparator(ArchiveComparator.java:25)
at com.code42.archive.MetadataLevelDB.getLevelDBOptions(MetadataLevelDB.java:39)
at com.code42.archive.AbstractLevelDBFile.open(AbstractLevelDBFile.java:72)
at com.code42.service.storage.AuthorizedStorageService.open(AuthorizedStorageService.java:126)
at com.code42.service.storage.AuthorizedStorageService.startUp(AuthorizedStorageService.java:82)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractIdleService$2$1.run(AbstractIdleService.java:54)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Callables$3.run(Callables.java:95)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)Exception in thread "AuthorizedStorageService STARTING" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'c42archive': /usr/local/crashplan/libc42archive.so: cann
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.loadLibrary(NativeLibrary.java:164)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getInstance(NativeLibrary.java:237)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getInstance(NativeLibrary.java:200)
at com.sun.jna.Native.register(Native.java:1016)
at com.code42.archive.jna.Archive42JNA.<clinit>(Archive42JNA.java:17)
at com.code42.archive.jna.ArchiveComparator.getV2VirtualTableComparator(ArchiveComparator.java:25)
at com.code42.archive.MetadataLevelDB.getLevelDBOptions(MetadataLevelDB.java:39)
at com.code42.archive.AbstractLevelDBFile.open(AbstractLevelDBFile.java:72)
at com.code42.service.storage.AuthorizedStorageService.open(AuthorizedStorageService.java:126)
at com.code42.service.storage.AuthorizedStorageService.startUp(AuthorizedStorageService.java:82)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.AbstractIdleService$2$1.run(AbstractIdleService.java:54)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.Callables$3.run(Callables.java:95)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)If anybody has a solution I would love to have it, otherwise bye bye Crashplan.
I'll convert my existing subscription anyway, since that is free.
But I'll stop running it on the NAS itself - instead I'll run it on a PC with the NAS volume mounted. That's been on my "to-do" list for a while anyway.
I'm considering doing the same thing Stephen, but wasn't 110% sure if it was possible? The Home product does not allow you to backup a network drive, does the SMB product allow this? Or, when you say "mounted" do you mean mounted in a location under a physical hard drive letter?
I assume this would rehydrate the data; I think the dedupe is not account global but just client specific?
The thing I'm going to miss the most about CrashPlan Home is the computer-to-computer backup. I had my NAS as a secondary destination for some of my critical data.
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