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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).
Thanks, StephenB, and good luck with your setup!
For the record, here is what the CrashPlan Pro interface looks like when running on the ReadyNAS and displayed on my Windows workstation via X:
The reason the backup has six months to complete is that I had to delete (and back up locally) a part of my media library to get under the 5 TByte limit for transfers.
PS: Lest there be a misunderstanding: You don't need to run your X Server and CrashPlanDesktop on your PC continuously in order to use CrashPlan Pro on your ReadyNAS; you only need to do that during setup and when you want to run the interface to check backup status. Even if X and CrashPlanDesktop are not running (as you'd prefer not to in order to avoid ReadyNAS resources), the backup themselves happen automatically and continuously (and the company will send you an email when there is a problem, so you can check it out locally).
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