Woot! CrashPlan client running on ReadyNAS Pro

Infinite wrote:

Update: I ended up running into a minor compatibility issue between the CrashPlan Seed drives and the ReadyNAS Pro. The USB Seed drive, a , did not perform well once plugged into the ReadyNAS Pro. The drive runs great with Windows or OSX, but for some reason it didn't play nicely with the ReadyNAS. Luckily I had enough free space that I was able to make a temporary share on my ReadyNAS Pro: 'CrashPlanBackup'. Then from the CrashPlan Client I did a 'Folder Backup' directly to the new CrashPlanBackup share (instead of backing up directly onto the USB Drive). Once the CrashPlan backup was completed on the ReadyNAS, I plugged the USB Seed Drive into my Mac, an Rsyn'ed the backup folder onto the USB drive. It's not ideal, but you are only doing the Seed drive backup once. I have no idea why the USB drive performed so poorly, but it didn't seem related to the CrashPlan Java client, nor did the drive seem to have any issues. Otherwise, I've had the linux CrashPlan client running on my ReadyNAS Pro for almost a month now and I have no complaints.

Just as an educated guess to what your problem may have been, NTFS filesystem performance in linux is somewhat less than that of ext3/ext4, So that may have caused your problem with the seed drive. The workaround is a good one though.