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[Dr Tone]

On 2017-08-16 at 2:36 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Trying to figure out Crashplan. It appears that a computer with a mapped drive is required to backup a NAS. The site is confusing with Crashplan and Code42 and different but similar options between then etc...

 

You can use a docker container to host the crasplan service on your NAS.  The desktop client can be configured to connect to it instead by changing a config file.  Did this config for a friend.

 

https://miketabor.com/run-crashplan-docker-synology-nas/

 

 

[Dr Tone]

32 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Been using CrashPlan for Small Business since yesterday. 

 

I wanted to install this on my Windows (CAPS Cortes) PC because it's powerful and it sits in a utility room. This PC runs all kinds of power hungry audio apps such as HQPlayer. However, after installing it, I found out that CrashPlan can only backup a mapped drive if it's on Mac or Linux. No windows. My NAS is a synology that I mapped to this Windows PC just for the purpose of backing up, but I'm out of luck there.

 

I installed the CrashPlan app on my iMac Retina 5K with 4 GHz i7 CPU and 16 GB of RAM. I work on this Mac all day, so this isn't ideal. There are settings for CrashPlan when the computer is active and when it isn't being used. I left it backing up last night (thus the app uses more of the system resources), and when I looked at it this AM, it said I have 5.3 months remaining on the backup. Not very cool, considering I have a 1 Gbps up/down internet connection. 

 

after working on this Mac today, and the app throttling back because I'm active on the computer, it now says I have 21.9 years left on the backup. Very not cool. 

 

If CrashPlan is installed on a computer that is used regularly, this backup will never complete. 

 

Should be talking to them shortly. 

 

 

 

 

I backed up network shares from my 2012 R2 box.  When you install you have to install for the current user not all users.  Of course you must also stay logged in as it works as an app instead of a service at that point..  At least that's how it worked for the home version.

[Dr Tone]

Considering I'm backup up over 7TBs, I can't migrate to Pro I'll have to re-upload everything.  Backblaze doesn't backup network shares with their unlimited and B2 is too expensive.

 

I'm seriously considering bringing up another NAS and putting it offsite to back up to.  I'm 100% in control at that point.

[Dr Tone]

14 minutes ago, agladstone said:

we need to create a CA "NAS" Buddy program!! 

Wheras (I've been thinking about this concept for a few days now) you "Buddy up" with another CA NAS user and each of you have a backup of your NAS going to the other Buddy's NAS! 

Of course this would require that each of the "Buddies" has the ability to store the backup of the others, so it would probably require that each person had an 8 or 9 bay NAS and was only using 4 bays or so for their own purposes. 

This would work and the "Buddy's" could pay for (ship to the other buddy via amazon, etc) the Hard Drives used for their off-site backup, but really if each person just bought their own extra drives and or extension attachments, it's exactly the same difference anyhow?? 

Any thoughts on this idea?? 

 

For versioning and continual backup of your data to work it would need to be pushed to your buddies NAS from the source NAS using the appropriate backup software.  Sending a loose drive with your data initially won't work.

 

Any software that would start from a loose drive would also leave the data wide open for you buddy to browse.  Most of us are backing up photos, tax and other important private data to they clouds.  Encrypted of course.