How I got SpiderOak --headless to run on OS6 x64/x86

So I have had my SpiderOak install gently pushing ~80kB/s up to the cloud for the last month-and-a-bit over my ADSL line with no problem.  I even set a Quality of Service (QoS) throttle on my ADSL router to limit uploads during Netflix streaming time of an evening.

Anyway, one morning I awoke with 34 alert emails (1 every 10 minutes) in my inbox with "Volume 'root' usage is 81%" etc.  I happen to also have SqueezeboxServer installed on this NAS and noted that my cache was about ~700MB.  I followed some instructions from the forums to move the squeezeboxserver directory from /var/lib to /apps and create a symlink to the directory and all was fine....

Until yesterday, when I began receiving these alerts again.  It just so happens that, given I installed SpiderOak under root, the database cache file was located there - and has grown to 1.6GB.  I performed the same amendment: shut down Spideroak using systemctl, moved the directory from /root to /apps, created the symlink and restarted SpiderOak with systemctl... here are the steps:

1) Stop SpiderOak (based on my first post where the service is 'spideroak' all lower case)

systemctl stop spideroak

 2) move the SpiderOak program from the /root to /apps

mv /root/.config/SpiderOak /apps/SpiderOak

3) Create the symlink

ln -s /apps/SpiderOak /root/.config/SpiderOak

4) Restart the SpiderOak service using systemctl

systemctl start spideroak

I am back to 34% usage on /root again, with the /apps residing on the raided hard disk volume. SpiderOak doesn't know anything different and is once again dribbling data up to the cloud.

Hope this helps aspiring SpiderOak users for ReadyNas.  My next post will be soonish and how to update the SpiderOak client to the recently released "SpiderOakOne" client.  I will wait until all my data is backed-up to the cloud before I attempt it.