And installing Java on a Diskstation is not straightforward, because there are a lot of different versions of the Diskstation and they don’t all use the same version of Java.

The problem is that Crashplan requires a working version of Java to work properly. Although when we finally discovered how to do it, it’s not very much harder than that. So it would seem as though one ought to be able to simply load the Crashplan Linux client onto the Diskstation, and the problems would all be solved? Well, not quite.

So, what to do? Read on to see.Īnother great feature of Crashplan that sets it apart from other backup services is that it has a client for Windows, Mac and also Linux. This was not ideal because 1) It put a lot of load on one PC, and 2) it only worked when that PC was on, which is not ideal for backup, which ideally ought to ‘just happen’ without human intervention. Previously we ran Crashplan on a local PC which used the Diskstation disks as network drives, and this machine backed everybody’s files up to the cloud. So for a while we have been trying to find a way to run Crashplan on it. Like all Diskstations, it runs a version of Linux and is a server in its own right which can be used to run all sorts of software. So we have a shared local network server that we keep our work on. When a local hard disk fails – which happens now and again – that way we don’t lose our work. We have several machines, and they all keep their data on a network. But for us, things are slightly more complicated. If you just have one machine, and install Crashplan on it, everything is simple. If you’re not, then you won’t find the rest of this article very interesting.Ĭrashplan installs as a bit of client software, which then interacts with the local storage, and remote storage. Anyway, let’s assume you’re convinced of the merits of backing up regularly offsite, and of using Crashplan.

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