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Sensei - Experienced User

Jan 25, 2023

ZeroTier as a ReadyCloud replacement.

Well, a big part of a replacement, anyway. With ReadyCloud going away, a lot of folks are going to be looking for a replacement in order to have remote access to their ReadyNAS, I have been using...

XtheUnknown

Apprentice

Feb 05, 2023

...actually I used the armel rather than the arm64 version on my 214, which seemed to work OK (a lot of the other downloadable ReadyNAS apps have .armel file extensions for 10x/2xx systems).

Perhaps Sandshark could advise if there's any importance difference between the two (which are built for different implementations of the ARM architecture).

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Feb 05, 2023

XtheUnknown wrote:

Perhaps Sandshark could advise if there's any importance difference between the two (which are built for different implementations of the ARM architecture).

armel is 32 bit (but of course can run on a 64 bit machine), arm64 is 64 bit.

Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
Feb 05, 2023
My bad. Yes, the ReadyNAS is an ARMV7 architecture and ARM64 requires V8 or above, you the armel version is the right one.
- JohnNulty
  Apprentice
  Feb 09, 2023
  Many thanks Sandshark for this post. How about Tailscale as an alternative to ReadyCloud as well? Do you (or any other posters) have any experience with this?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 09, 2023
    JohnNulty wrote:
    
    How about Tailscale as an alternative to ReadyCloud as well? Do you (or any other posters) have any experience with this?
    
    It is similar to ZeroTier as far as architecture and features. One challenge would be installing it on the ReadyNAS (since it uses an older version of linux and a small OS partition).
    
    It wouldn't be ideal for Sandshark, since he is using ZeroTier for remote backup - connecting to a backup NAS at a friend/relative's house. Definitely simpler for him to have ZeroTier running natively on the backup NAS.
    
    Personally, I currently use cloud backup for disaster recovery - so I don't have a backup NAS in another location. I use OpenVPN in my router for my own remote access. I do have a PC application server for Plex and other applications (including the cloud backup software), and just use the NAS for storage. I believe that is more future-proof than trying to install software on the ReadyNAS.