Well a few days ago, I received an email from CrashPlan threatening to delete my backups since my NAS hadn’t connected in over 6 months. Since my DS411 is reaching the end of it’s life anyways, I figured I would just wait until I replaced it with one of the new Synology devices that use an Intel processor. For the past 6-7 months, I’ve been unable to back up my primary storage device at home. This ran great until late 2016 when CrashPlan updated to 4.8.0 and ended support for ARM processors (which is what the DS411 uses). I found a great community package ( here), which allowed me to install the backup client directly on the NAS. This was amazing to me, because I had around 1.2TB of data at the time. I started using CrashPlan, because they offer unlimited cloud storage for only $5.99 a month. So in late 2014 I decided that I needed to find a good backup solution for it. Of course, I’ve also been using the NAS for general file storage (photos, videos, documents, etc). I’ve been using the device since then with 4x 3TB drives as an iSCSI backend to my ESX host.

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