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Tutorial to install CrashPlan (updated August 2016)
Hello everyone, As I have reinstall CrashPlan on my ReadyNas today. I thought I will share with everyone my updated notes. Feel free to comment to improve this step-by-step. Maybe a clever person...
I'm running 4.2.28 on a Pro 6.
I've been using the Java 7 addon from RNSXtras for quite some time now. My CrashPlan 4.7 install tried to upgrade to 4.8 I believe on Sept 29. It tried to download the new JVM and was unable to because of the wget cert check issue. It filled the /usr/local/crashplan/upgrade folder with multiple attempts and filled my root volume. Luckily I was still able to boot up and SSH in. I modified .wgetrc according to a post I found and this page (I can't find the forum post anymore).
http://www.elftronix.com/how-to-automatically-skip-wget-ssl-certificate-check/
I managed to delete everything in the upgrade folder to reclaim the root volume space. After making that change to wget, CrashPlan tried to upgrade again. This time it was able to download the Java 1.8 and it successfully upgraded to 4.8. JAVACOMMON in my install.vars is now pointing to /usr/local/crashplan/jre/bin/java.
Everything seems to be working fine. I'm guessing parts of this have already been posted somewhere on the forums but I thought I would just post my experience in case anyone runs into the same problem.
Can I assume there is no need for the Java 1.7 addon from RNSXtras anymore?
I may just ditch Crashplan and move over to Amazon Cloud Drive. Pricing seems reasonable at $60 for unlimited storage... my CP plan expires in December anyway.
I still really like CrashPlan and recommend it all the time. Even a free setup where you cross backup between 2 clients is very handy. I have the CP family plan, so I can put my parents machines on it as well. The day they have a hard drive failure I know it will be simple for me to restore their stuff for them. Puts my mind at ease.
How would you use ACD with the ReadyNAS? There is no addon that I am aware of. Then again I'm not on OS6.
CP is great but for my purposes I really just need the NAS backed up. I back everything up to my NAS as a centralized location at home, and from there I just want the NAS alone backed up.
Amazon Cloud Drive is currently available as of 6.6.0 at least. Not sure when it was introduced but it is fairly new.
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