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TIP: CrashPlan Pro 4.9 DOES Work With Headless ReadyNAS Over X
As a follow on the discussion on what to do about the discontinuation of CrashPlan Home a couple months ago, let me add one coda: I decided to go with CrashPlan Pro, as for my requirements (continuo...
CarlEdman wrote:
I decided to run a free X Server (vcxsrv) on my Windows machine while running CrashPlanDesktop on the ReadyNAS.
And--mirabile dictu--it seems to work just fine. CrashPlanDesktop via X looks and feels nearly identical to the old remote client.
Thanks for posting this tip, I'm sure others will find it useful.
I'm running Crashplan on a PC, mounting the NAS data volume as a network drive. That is also working fine - though I had to start with a new backup archive, and getting the initial backup complete is going is slower than I expected. However, it is getting there (albeit slowly).
CarlEdman wrote:
I decided to run a free X Server (vcxsrv) on my Windows machine while running CrashPlanDesktop on the ReadyNAS.
And--mirabile dictu--it seems to work just fine. CrashPlanDesktop via X looks and feels nearly identical to the old remote client.
Thanks for posting this tip, I'm sure others will find it useful.
I'm running Crashplan on a PC, mounting the NAS data volume as a network drive. That is also working fine - though I had to start with a new backup archive, and getting the initial backup complete is going is slower than I expected. However, it is getting there (albeit slowly).
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