#Crashplan cache how to
#Crashplan cache install

You really wouldn’t realize there was an issue unless you happened to check your backup statuses or had the Crashplan service email you fairly often if no backup was received. This resulted in a lot of pain every few months when Crashplan autoupdated. Unfortunately, Crashplan has a tendency to automatically upgrade itself and the update process doesn’t play nice with Synology DSM’s version of Linux.

#Crashplan cache how to

Again, our friend Scott Hansleman has an excellent post about how to do this.

#Crashplan cache install

Previously, in order to get this working, you had to add an unofficial package source and install a package that worked around Crashplan’s install limitations. This can be a little daunting as Crashplan still hasn’t issued an official package for Synology NAS devices. Now that you’ve decided that Crashplan is the best thing since sliced bread, you’ll want to install it on your Synology NAS in order to backup your centralized data. Other comparable services are much more expensive. Their pricing is incredibly great for their service (unlimited storage?). I highly recommend Crashplan for all of your personal and small business disaster recovery needs. While cloud providers are great and provide an excellent service of synchronizing data and files between devices, they don’t usually provide a good disaster recovery scenario when trying to retrieve old data that was overwritten or accidentally deleted. Or, perhaps, you hit delete on the wrong file without realizing it. This means that if you accidentally save your thesis paper after fat fingering select all + delete, you’re in trouble. In most cases, cloud providers will give you access to the most recent version of a synchronized file. Even though it is several years old, every point he makes is very relevant in today’s world.Īnother quick tidbit that most people overlook is that Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, or Google Drive usually isn’t an adequate backup for working data.

Please take a moment and read Scott’s excellent post. Make no mistake, people think backups and redundant backups are a waste of time and money until they actually need them. Scott Hanselman has an excellent blog post outlining why you should backup your data as well as how thorough you should be about it. Whether it is family photos or business documents, you typically will want to have an offsite backup in the event of a catastrophic disk failure or some other disaster such as a flood or fire. If you’re like me and you have an awesome Synology DiskStation (I have a 1515+), you probably want to back up the all important data that you are storing. Update the /usr/local/crashplan/bin/run.conf with the maximum value you want your java heap to be allowed to use: SRV_JAVA_OPTS='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapp=CrashPlanService -DappBaseName=CrashPlan -Xms20m -Xmx1024m =300 =300 .ttl=0 =0 =false' Backstory