Woot! CrashPlan client running on ReadyNAS Pro

ferrold wrote:

Philos31 wrote: Is there maybe a walk trough for the less geeky how to get this up and running on the readynas? Has anyone come across a "guide for dummies" for doing this? CrashPlan seems like a great alternative to Vault, but I am not really comfortable with messing around in the kernel without very clear instructions on how to do this - I assume I can use the client software on my Mac and have it backup my NAS to the CP cloud, until such a guide is available?

I've been happily running CrashPlan on my Ultra 6 for a couple months now. (And I highly recommend it!)

There are two issues: Installing the service and configuring the service.

To install the service, all I did was blindly follow the steps that dkerr listed here:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18139&p=270147#p269908
Possible typo-correction here:
http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18139&start=15#p297737

As you assumed, once installed, you have to configure (what to backup, where to backup to, etc.) CrashPlan on the NAS, using the desktop client on another computer (your Mac) via SSH forwarding. CrashPlan has a tutorial on how to do this:
http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/how_to/configure_a_headless_client

I could blindly follow CrashPlan's tutorial because I have a Windows desktop. The OP (Infinite) indicates that he was able to successfully use JellyFiSSH on Mac (instead of PuTTY on Windows).

I don't really feel qualified to write a guide (since I'm just blindly following someone else's steps), but I'll be happy to help if anyone has questions. I do (mostly) understand what I'm doing at least.