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Newbie wondering if should upgrade to OS 6.x
Hi first time post. I have acquired an Ultra 4 Plus which is currently bare. I plan to use it fairly lightly to store and share photos, music, videos etc and to run CrashPlan to act as a backup agent ...
A few months ago, I wanted to expand my Ultra 6 Plus beyond the 8TB lifetime expansion limit of OS 4.2.xx, so I decided that was a good time to backup, perform a factory reset, and upgrade to OS 6, which has no expansion limits. http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7010/~/readynas%3A-expansion
I used the BTRFS snapshot feature after I inadvertently deleted a file, which was more recent than my last external backup. That worked well.
Antivirus seemed to be a problem on legacy NASes prior to OS 6.5. I have read that Antivirus is working better, but I cannot remember whether I have relaunched Antivirus since updating to OS 6.5.
Apparently, ReadyCloud has been in transition, has not worked for me recently as ReadyNAS Remote used to, and was supposed to be revamped in May. This week, I got an email instructing me to update my log-on credentials in ReadyCloud, so I assume the transition has been completed. I haven't updated my log-on credentials yet.
OS 6 performance on my legacy ReadyNAS has improved with each OS 6 upgrade, so I recommend it if one is so inclined and is starting fresh or needs to perform a factory reset.
ReadyNAS Ultra Plus 6, OS 6.5, 2 HGST 4TB Ultrastar and 4 Hitachi 2TB Ultrastar HDDs. Mac computers and iOS devices.
Thanks for the replies. I think I'll go for it. Having come from a QNAP NAS I have to admit the 4.x interface looks quite dated.
I'm quite au-fait with the Java and glibc issues with Crashplan, that's one of the reasons I decided to change the NAS. When it works - it's great but they've moved the product on and my QNAP hasn't enough RAM to make it run reliably any more. I plan to upgrade the RAM on the Ultra 4 Plus as well so this shouldbn't be an issue in future.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Nettle wrote:
I plan to upgrade the RAM on the Ultra 4 Plus as well so this shouldbn't be an issue in future.
The crashplan jvm for linux is limited to ~3.7 GB no matter how much RAM you install (its a 32 bit jvm). This might not be a problem for local crashplan backup, but it could get in the way if you have a large volume and are backing up to CrashPlan Central.
Last summer it became a problem for me - I increased the memory in my Pro-6 and maxed the jvm. I also set retention limits on the Crashplan Central archive. Duplication is the memory hog, and it is done against all files in the archive, including deleted ones.
It is working fine now, and I am hopeful that will continue. But if it happens again, I'll need to run crashplan on a PC instead of the NAS.
OK I'm up and running. Dug out a couple of old 250GB laptop drives as a strictly temporary solution and got the NAS started. Following instructions on upgrading to 6 and that went smoothly enough. Then installed Crashplan 4.6 - hiccup with replacing CPIO but a reboot sorted that out and had to download the JRE manually as the CP installer wget doesn't work https://support.code42.com/Administrator/4/Troubleshooting/Linux_CrashPlan_App_Unable_To_Download_JRE
Followed the CrashPlan headless instructions on setting up a Putty SSH tunnel and changing the .UI_INFO file and I am able to configure it from my Windows client.
Rsynced the backups from the QNAP NAS and adopted them.
Once that was sorted its all working as expected.
Just need to decide what proper disks to get now and find some RAM, though that's of secondary importance it would seem.
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