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Crashplan for small business on headless
Hello all,
This is a continuation of the following thread which was closed for inactivity
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/TIP-CrashPlan-Pro-4-9-DOES-Work-With-Headles...
Oh, drat, I probably should have made notes of how I did it at the time! ;)
On the positive side, I do recall that while it took going through some cycles of fixing a series of error messages, but that it didn't take this long-time but rusty UN*X admin very long to work his way through them and that it still works without a problem.
Let me give you what I remember:
1. You need a X Window server for your local workstation (As you may know, X is a little bit funny in that the "server" runs on what you consider the workstation while the X client runs on what one usually would consider the server). Fortunately there are a bunch free and good ones for most platforms. I use VcXsrv on Windows 10 x64 with no problems that some font kerning looks a little off (ugly, but perfectly legible).
2. You need a way to ssh in to your ReadyNAS. That should be well described in other FAQs. Suffice to say that I use PuTTY which is also free and excellent. The only configuration change I needed to make was to make PuTTY handle the X11 forwarding over SSH (not necessary, but easier IMHO), by Enabling X11 forwarding in the Connection/SSH/X11 setup menu. Don't know if it was necessary, but I also enable MIT-Magic-Cookie-1, but left the X display location and X authority file form fields blank. Both should be autoconfigured by vcXsrv and Putty. In particular check your shell environment inside Putty. It should contain something like "DISPLAY=localhost:10.0" (if that is confusing because it directs X apps to display on the localhost, i.e., the ReadyNAS itself, it is ok because Putty should tunnel it through to your display).
3. Finally you need the relevant X client libraries installed on your ReadyNAS. You can get them all via "apt-get install". I think I started with "apt-get install xorg" (aftert doing an apt-get update, of course). After that check whether "xeyes" displays correctly on your screen. If so, your basic X setup is working. It may still require one or two extra libraries, to get "CrashPlanDesktop" to display on your screen, but if you get this I'd happy to help you try and figure out any remaining error messages.
Hi Carl,
Very much appreciated, thanks.
On what NAS did you install Crashplan and what OS are you running? I am still on OS4 and I cannot install Xorg - I have a feeling that the software is set to check on the ReadyNas website and Xorg is not available on that OS? But my Linux is just basic.
AH, that could be a problem! I am running OS 6.9.3, but on ancient hardware: A ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus that I bought almost 8 years ago. Never regretted the upgrade to OS 6, but storing all your data off the system while you reformat to OS 6 can be a pain.
FWIW, my /etc/apt/sources.list is:
deb http://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.9.3 updates apps main deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian jessie main deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
Thank you! I didn't even know how to change the sources.
I guess it's time to update but as you say it's difficult to park the several TB's of data while I wipe and reinstall! Maybe I'll find a way.
I'll keep you posted, thanks for your help in the meantime!
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