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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #210 - Sep 11^th, 2014 at 1:13pm That depends on how long you are willing to go without your data. I would recommend considering at least RAID 5, but you can get away with JBOD if you don't mind waiting to download your data again following a failure. -b0b (...choices!)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #211 - Sep 11^th, 2014 at 3:28pm Great. Thanks for giving me some stuff to ponder. I had to send my Synology back to them after, I think their mobo died, and got another hard drive and figured I might as well think about RAID now before it's too late. X
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #212 - Sep 27^th, 2014 at 7:08pm So I picked up CrashPlan. The only problem with it is that it doesn't see my NAS or Windows Mounted Drives. How'd you get around this Bob?
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Reply #213 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 8:36am

I use a Linux system to back up my NAS drives. CrashPlan supports backing up NAS volumes on Linux and Mac, but not on Windows due to the way Windows handles NAS drive mounting.

There is a janky Windows workaround here:

http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Backing_Up_A_Windows_Network_D...

Let me know if that doesn't work for you.

-b0b
(...runs into this same problem with commercial backup products.)

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Reply #214 - Sep 29^th, 2014 at 2:17pm

NM...found this one to work well - https://helpdesk.code42.com/entries/26505676-Comprehensive-Beginners-Guide-to-Ba
cking-Up-FROM-a-NAS-with-Crashplan?flash_digest=3b49abc532cd017c95e127ef5d2a9c5a
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he just has to change his syntax a bit but man...that was a heavy work trying to find a working process. I wonder why CrashPlan (or I really should say Windows because it seems CP wants to support it) doesn't support NAS.

Thanks!

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Reply #215 - Sep 30^th, 2014 at 4:20pm

It's due to the way Windows handles permissions for mapped network drives. Network drives are mapped with user account permissions, while CrashPlan runs natively as a service using the network service account. Long story short, this prevents CrashPlan from accessing a drive mounted using a user account.

As iterated on the URL I posted and the URL you posted, the easiest way to get around this is to use a user account with administrative privileges to launch CrashPlan, then use that same account to map the network drive.

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #216 - Jan 4^th, 2015 at 12:30pm Bob - here's the program I was talking about last night that uses Boolean to rename massive amount of files - http://www.filebot.net/ Do you have the steps you use for CrashPlan for synology that you were talking about? X
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Reply #217 - Feb 23^rd, 2015 at 10:54am

Here is the batch file I use:

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echo %date% %time% : "C:\MountBackups.bat" >> C:\StorageReports\NFSMount.log

net use X: \\TWN-SAN\Backup /USER:USERACCOUNT PASSWORD >> C:\StorageReports\NFSMount.log 2>&1 2>&1

Change "\\TWN-SAN\Backup" to the appropriate NFS path.

Change "USERACCOUNT" to your user account name, add the domain name if necessary. Also, change PASSWORD to the password for the account.

The entire first line and ">> C:\StorageReports\NFSMount.log 2>&1 2>&1" in the second line aren't necessary. These just create a log file and append the data, time, and command output to the log. Feel free to change the directory and log name as necessary.

Once you're happy with the batch file, create a schedule in Task Schedule for it. Configure it to run with highest privileges under the SYSTEM account. Configure it to trigger at system startup and configure that action to "start a program" pointed at your batch file.

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #218 - Aug 20^th, 2015 at 11:52am I'm looking to download some video files. The only issue is that the player is a JW Player. Does anyone have any experience with a program that can help me leech the video without screen capturing it? X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Computer Questions Reply #219 - Aug 22^nd, 2015 at 10:40am I use DownloadHelper, just avoid the skeezy conversion tool it wants you to download if possible. Not sure what browser you're using these days, but here is the FireFox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ -b0b (...works for nearly everything.)
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