I am very pleased to say that the CrashPlan linux client runs nicely on my ReadyNAS Pro. I expect that any of the ReadyNas Ultra models should be able to run the Java client. I was looking for a inexpensive solution that could back up my 1TB of family photo's. I'm sure that ReadyNAS Vault and many of the more expensive packages are far better suited for business, but for me CrashPlan was the right price. All and all I really like CrashPlan and having it run locally on my ReadyNAS is just AWESOME! :)Compared to other options CrashPlan is super affordable, it has a great client, and you can 'seed' your data. 'Seeding' your data means that they will ship you a HD drive that you can backup ~1.5TB of data on, then you ship it back and then they upload that data to the 'Cloud' (Servers). For me it will save about 10 months of data transferring. After the data has been 'seeded' I only have to upload new data or stuff that changed. For me the delta's are pretty small on new files.CrashPlan has a great video here for the less geeky:http://b3.crashplan.com/consumer/features-tour.htmlMy setup, is a ReadyNAS Pro that does the main file share functionality for the family and I have another older ReadyNAS backing certain share's on my Pro.Here is the tutorial that helped get Java running on my ReadyNAS Pro. It was SUPER simple. Once Java is running and you install the CrashPlan Linux client the only tricky part is doing the SSH forwarding. For Mac users you can add the SSH forwarding setup to JellyFiSSH.http://www.grepsoft.net/jellyfissh.html.Thank you very much to 'avpman', for writing the great Java walk-though! http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18139&p=270147&hilit=CrashPlan#p270147!Oh yeah... I do NOT work for CrashPlan. :D I'm just a happy customer. I really like my ReadyNAS's too. :D-i

Update:I ended up running into a minor compatibility issue between the CrashPlan Seed drives and the ReadyNAS Pro. The USB Seed drive, a LaCie Rugged Hard Disk, 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.

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.

Just out of curiosity, what crashplan, plan are you using? I'm guessing crashplan +?

dholoski wrote:Just out of curiosity, what crashplan, plan are you using? I'm guessing crashplan +?Sorry for the super late response. Yes, I have a single CrashPlan+ account. It's Unlimited data and a 3 year plan for the best price. They now have 4 year plan which is just $2.92/month which is just amazingly inexpensive.Some of my good friends lost a ton of their family photo's recently when there home was robbed. The thieves stole their computer that had a lot of backup data, so sadly they lost a lot of their family photo's.CrashPlan has been running beautifully on our ReadyNas Pro. We average we shoot about 10Gig of family photo's a week which get put on the NAS and then uploaded to the cloud. I think I'm going to be building the same setup for my parents with one of the smaller ReadyNAS devices.-i

Is there maybe a walk trough for the less geeky how to get this up and running on the readynas?

Woot! CrashPlan client running on ReadyNAS Pro

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simon0117

Tutor

Sep 01, 2012

I have a ReadyNAS Duo 4.1.9 . Following the instructions I seem to have come to a roadblock.

My /etc/apt/sources.list

jupiter:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.readynas.com/packages readynas/
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports etch-backports main non-free

When I try to install the jre:

jupiter:~# apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  sun-java6-jre: Depends: java-common (>= 0.24) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-07-3~bpo40+1) but it is not installable or
                          ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-07-3~bpo40+1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
jupiter:~# apt-get install sun-java6-bin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package sun-java6-bin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  sun-java6-jre
E: Package sun-java6-bin has no installation candidate

simon0117
Tutor
Sep 01, 2012
Nevermind, I just realized the Duo is a sparc, unlike the Pro.
psindrup
Aspirant
Oct 07, 2012
simon0117 wrote:
Nevermind, I just realized the Duo is a sparc, unlike the Pro.

Does that mean that you can not get the CrashPlan to run on your Readynas Duo at all, or do you just have to follow a different installation procedure?

T.i.a.

Peter
simon0117
Tutor
Oct 07, 2012
psindrup wrote:

Does that mean that you can not get the CrashPlan to run on your Readynas Duo at all, or do you just have to follow a different installation procedure?

Nope, couldn't get it to work because I think I can't install Java on the Duo sparc architecture?
simon0117
Tutor
Oct 07, 2012
Although I haven't looked for a deb package for it yet. It may be possible to download a tarball from somewhere and install manually, or even try and compile it from source. That will have to be a project for me for another weekend :-)
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 07, 2012
Even if you could run Java on the Duo (v1) it wouldn't be advisable. Java is resource intensive and would work best on an Intel NAS (i.e. NVX/Ultra/Ultra Plus/Pro)
kirkfrey
Aspirant
Oct 07, 2012
Working thru a scare so looking to beef up my offsite backup solution. Is there any reason I wouldn't want to go his way with my Pro? Are there any drawbacks or stability concerns?
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 08, 2012
I've been running CrashPlan on my Pro 6 for about 8 months. No stability issues so far. The speed varies (depending on server load), but it is keeping up. Getting the initial seeding done takes some patence though (took a couple of months to upload 6 TB).
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 08, 2012
The things you do have to be aware of with something like Crashplan are:

1. You need SSH installed. If you break stuff using SSH you may be denied support till you do a factory default (wipes all data, settings, everything)
2. You have to install it yourself manually. If a firmware update breaks it you need to fix it yourself (should be able to get some help with this on the forum if you need it)

Having said that if you follow instructions properly you should be fine and anyway with your backup up to date in the unlikely event something goes badly wrong you can always restore from backup.
edalquist
Apprentice
Nov 19, 2012
I followed the steps here: http://www.shasam.net/blog/2012/3/21/cr ... s-x86.html

Those steps worked amazingly well on my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 and I'm in the process of doing the initial backup of ~650GB of data to CrashPlan Central. I also have two family members that are backing up their systems to my ReadyNAS from remote locations for free.

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