Can someone clarify something for me. Does this allow the readynas to directly backup to Crashplan without a computer running? Or do I still need a desktop running?
No additional computer needed except to configure CP on the NAS. Data is then backed up from your NAS to the selected destination directly
Great. Gonna give it a go tonight. Can anyone comment on how well the Readynas runs Crashplan? Does it take a lot of system resources? Is a RAM upgrade recommended? I have ReadyNas Ultra 4 Plus running stock.
I just brought a readynas ultra 2 last week and have been trying even since to set up crashplan on it but it just does not work.
I believe i have installed crashplan on the nas via putty properly but cannot work out how to do the port forwarding.
I am getting the following message: telnet: can't connect to remote host (127.0.0.1): Connection refused and i have tried eveything but cannot seem to get the nas to show up on my crashplan desktop. it would be great if someone out there could help me to set up crashplan on my nas pleaseee:D
i am not a linux user and this is my first time using putty and doing something like this.
On the putty setup, you want to create a profile with the basid options of port 22, the NAS IP address/name, and connection type SSH. You probably have this part correct already, otherwise you wouldn't have crashplan installed.
On the PC, you need to go into C:\Program Files (x86)\CrashPlan\conf, and edit ui.properties.
(a) temporarily rename it to a .txt extension (not a bad idea to archive a copy of the original file first!) (b) open it with wordpad (not notepad). (c) change the line that says "#servicePort=4243" to "servicePort=4200" Note the initial # is removed. All other lines should be left alone. (d) save file and remove the .txt extension
First you connect to the NAS via putty and log in as root, then you launch the crashplan desktop on the PC. You need to keep the putty connection open while you are running the client.
However im sorry to say that it still does not work, crashplan opens up as normal with the putty connection open but nothing is changed...cannot see my nas drive
However im sorry to say that it still does not work, crashplan opens up as normal with the putty connection open but nothing is changed...cannot see my nas drive
So you are seeing crashplan connect, and you are able to log into your account? I am not sure what you mean when you say you cannot see the NAS drive.
However im sorry to say that it still does not work, crashplan opens up as normal with the putty connection open but nothing is changed...cannot see my nas drive
So you are seeing crashplan connect, and you are able to log into your account? I am not sure what you mean when you say you cannot see the NAS drive.
I tried it again properly this time and unfortunatly I am unable to connect to crashplan. Its says "Unable to connect to the backup engine, retry?"
when i was talkin about the NAS drive i meant that i cannot back it up to the crashplan server as i cannot locate the NAS drive on the CP application.
Is this the guide you followed: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61152&hilit=crashplan#p342781
yes thats the guide i followed.
How do i check that crashplan is correctly installed on my nas...also what is the command to completely remove crashplan for me to reinstall it again.
when i change the ui.properties file codes and than open putty and open crash plan...i get the error message that its unable to connect to the backup engine on CP.
One thing to keep in mind that it is not enough to open putty - you need to log in as root into the NAS before you launch the client.
Begin by logging in to the NAS with putty.
First enter
ps aux | grep BaseName
You should get a long line that has /usr/bin/java in it, and also -Dapp=CrashPlanService
Assuming you see that, then enter
netstat -an | grep ':424.'
You should see tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4242 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:4243 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4242 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:zzzzz ESTABLISHED
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the NAS, yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the IP address of the PC. ZZZZZ is a port number (shows up as 60249 on my system, but probably varies).
BTW, did you install crashplan 3.0.3 (which was the current version when the guide was published) or version 3.2.1 (the current version).
One thing to keep in mind that it is not enough to open putty - you need to log in as root into the NAS before you launch the client.
Begin by logging in to the NAS with putty.
First enter
ps aux | grep BaseName
You should get a long line that has /usr/bin/java in it, and also -Dapp=CrashPlanService
Assuming you see that, then enter
netstat -an | grep ':424.'
You should see tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:4242 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:4243 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4242 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:zzzzz ESTABLISHED
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the NAS, yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the IP address of the PC. ZZZZZ is a port number (shows up as 60249 on my system, but probably varies).
BTW, did you install crashplan 3.0.3 (which was the current version when the guide was published) or version 3.2.1 (the current version).
I have factory reset the nas and am going to reinstall crashplan and do it all over again and see if it works this time.
Your copy/paste is not keeping the lines separate.
If ui.properties is configured correctly, when you launch crashplan without putty running you will see the splash screen for quite a while. Then you will see "unable to connect to the backup engine, retry?" If you are not seeing that error, then we need to fix that before we move on.
Your copy/paste is not keeping the lines separate.
If ui.properties is configured correctly, when you launch crashplan without putty running you will see the splash screen for quite a while. Then you will see "unable to connect to the backup engine, retry?" If you are not seeing that error, then we need to fix that before we move on.
i just rebooted pc and ans again and its saying "unable to connect to the backup engine, retry?".
