UPDATED: See filzip77's post below for a guide\Tutorial on how to installI’m new to the forums so please be gentle ….I’m looking to venture into having a dedicated/off the shelf NAS rather then the DIY version I have been running for a while. The ReadyNAS Duo\NV+ v2 (ARM version) definitely sticks out as the top runner.The one thing that is stopping me taking the plunge is I’m unclear on if it can cope with running Crashplan.I understand that Crashplan is java based and that the older “sparc” Duo cannot run it. But is there a way to get Crashplan running on a newer Duo v2? I’ve searched then forums but it’s a little unclear. I have seen comments around the web stating folk have done it but not with any detail that gives me any confidence so splash my cash.Any help on this matter would be much appricated.

No. Look at the system requirements: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/download.html?os=LinuxYou need at least 1GB RAM. The ARM products have 256MB RAM that is not upgradeable.You'll need to get an x86 ReadyNAS (e.g. Ultra, Pro) if you want to run Crashplan. There are instructions on the forum on how to install it.Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for the quick response.Thats the one thing I never checked...doh! Would have saved myself a ton of time. Ah well.Looks like the Ultra might be longer term investment anyway. I'm laughing through because the DIY system I'm looking to replace would have the same spec as the Ultra plus.

I have NV+ which is afaik ARM and it's upgrade-able to 1GB. Although those RAMs are quite a bit expensive, so I didn't do that..

Gucek, what version of RAIDiator?The Sparc NV+ (v1) which runs RAIDiator 4.1.8 and has the Frontview web-interface (looks like http://www.readynas.com/simulators/frontview/) is very different to the new ARM NV+ v2 which runs RAIDiator 5.3.x and has the new Dashboard web-interface.The NV+ v2 was released on Nov 13th 2011, so if you purchased before this time you'd have the v1.I've posted an article on telling the difference between the v1 and v2 here: How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2

Hello,I have just acquired a new Readynas duo v2.In one of the previous message of this thread, mdgm replied it was not possible to install crashplan on the Duov2No. Look at the system requirements: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/download.html?os=LinuxYou need at least 1GB RAM. The ARM products have 256MB RAM that is not upgradeable.I also read on internet there is a guide howto install crashplan on Synology NAS (with the same processeur ARM and the same amount of memory).Here is the link: http://pcloadletter.co.uk/2012/01/30/crashplan-syno-package/If it runs on a Synology ARM based, it must also runs on the readynas duo v2.No problem for the download/installation of the the sun-java runtime 7. I tried but the tuto doesn't explain how to get the library "libmd5.so" for arm.Did someone already do it for our NAS?Philippe

Crashplan on Duo/NV+ v2? [SOLVED + TUTORIAL]

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sphardy1
Apprentice
May 20, 2012
Yup - and I have the same experience with my x86 based Ultra

However, I'm asking about ARM based units (Duo & NV+ v2) where, unlike the x86 units, libraries need to be updated that may be overwritten by a firmware update, and/or there may be other differences affecting startup
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
May 20, 2012
It starts up automatically when I reboot my pro, and survived the firmware update from 4.2.19 to 4.2.20
sphardy1
Apprentice
May 25, 2012
Just updated from 5.3.3 to 5.3.5 (which seems rather buggy...) and Crashplan appears to have survived OK. Still doesn't autostart on boot, but all my machines have connected back to CP and appear to be running OK. Will report back if I see any issues
nasxpert
Aspirant
Aug 30, 2012
how is the performance of this setup? And is this setup successful for multiple users? its been over 8 months since the release of this product and yet there are less than 10 community add-ons? no dropbox? no real plex media server setup? was it worth the investment if its not going to be supported as well as the intel NASes?
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 30, 2012
There are more add-ons under development. However a dropbox add-on for ARM is unlikely. Precompiled x86 binaries are used for x86 (Intel) ReadyNAS. If Dropbox were to provide the source so it could be ported to ARM then it might be possible.

There is a Plex add-on for ARM at http://www.plexapp.com/linux/linux-pms-download.php (no Transcoding though as CPU is not powerful enough).

There's never going to be as good a range of add-ons for ARM as there is for x86 due to various factors (i.e. not having source code available so can't compile for non-x86 system) but there will be some growth in the range of add-ons available.
nasxpert
Aspirant
Aug 31, 2012
ok sounds good. thanks.

Has anyone tried running crashplan while streaming media onto their tv and tablet at the same time? Does anyone know if the cpu can handle that pressure?
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 01, 2012
I have a Pro, so I can't really speak to the NV+ v2 performance.

Transcoding requires a lot of CPU, but streaming w/o transcoding does not. If you aren't using transcoding (for instance, if you are just using ReadyDLNA), then I think you won't see any issue at all.

Also, Crashplan uses CPU while its uploading new files (or recovering files), but doesn't use much when the backup is caught up. It does a daily disk scan, but you can set the time for that so it is off-hours. So when CrashPlan is caught up, there would also be no CPU contention.
psindrup
Aspirant
Oct 08, 2012
Hi all

Is there no way at all to get CrashPlan (or other on-line storage providers) to work on a ReadyNAS version 1?

Thanks a million.

Peter
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 08, 2012
ReadyNAS Vault works on the v1.
kirtapatrik
Aspirant
Oct 19, 2012
Hello

my backup is working, thx for the tutorial.

But after every reboot of the nas, I have to manually start CrashPlan.
Any ideas to fix this problem?

Thanks for your help
Patrik

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