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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 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.
Ah yes I see that now. I tried running OS6 on my Pro 6 and didn't care for it. It ramped the fans up much higher than the old OS so was quite noisy. There was something other drawback that made me switch back as well but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Are you running OS6 on an older platform? Feedback given its current state?
This is on an RN204 so relatively new but still ARM.
jplee3 wrote:
Amazon Cloud Drive is currently available as of 6.6.0 at least. Not sure when it was introduced but it is fairly new.
It's not a backup, since it is a 2-way sync. There are ideas in the exchange on setting it to 1-way for backup, and also to encrypt the files on the drive for added security.
So I'm not sure this is ready quite yet (and it wouldn't have the versioning or deduplication that crashplan has).
I'm thinking I'll keep CrashPlan, but at some point will host it on a PC and map the NAS data volume to a drive letter.
StephenB wrote:
jplee3 wrote:Amazon Cloud Drive is currently available as of 6.6.0 at least. Not sure when it was introduced but it is fairly new.
It's not a backup, since it is a 2-way sync. There are ideas in the exchange on setting it to 1-way for backup, and also to encrypt the files on the drive for added security.
So I'm not sure this is ready quite yet (and it wouldn't have the versioning or deduplication that crashplan has).
I'm thinking I'll keep CrashPlan, but at some point will host it on a PC and map the NAS data volume to a drive letter.
Yea, that makese sense... it's definitely taking a while to sync things up. I think I may have disabled dedupe anyway while running CP on the RN204 (when it was working) - this may have been to increase performance... but I can't recall exactly. Actually, it wouldn't make sense for it to be disabled for performance increase - maybe I'm thinking of encryption or something else.
Yea, seems the other 'viable' method is to run CP on Windows and map the NAS on a drive... although, I think that method is technically unsupported as well according to CP haha (wouldn't be surprised if they figure out a way to break that too!)
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