I was today days old when I learned you can reference remote locations in your kustomize file.
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
resources:
- github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes/deployments/gpu_plugin?ref=v0.30.0
patches:
- path: add-args.yamlAnd can be run by kubectl apply -k intel/
After upgrading from my old Synology DS1511+ (yes, 12 years old) to a new Synology DS423+ (highly recommended!) and getting everything migrated, I wanted to wipe the machine to see if I can sell/donate it. It still works great, but I wanted to hard reset it to prepare it for a new owner. Needless to say it didn’t go according to plan, but figured I’d document it here.
As part of the upgrade, I had disconnected the old NAS to ensure there was nothing more I needed on it. It had been sitting in my office for about 3 weeks and I figured it was time to wipe it. I plugged it in, turned it on…and for some reason I couldn’t hit the website. Meh, no matter, I’ll just reset it via the button.
It reset and I was able to find it via find.synology.com and started the reconfigure of it. All worked well until it got to 95%…and sat there. I opened a new browser window and did the same thing…only to have it get stuck at 95% again. Life happened and so I left it there for awhile only to come back to the same issue. Ugh.
So I restarted it…
I was still unable to access it via the IP I saw it was getting. I also wasn’t able to find it on find.synology.com. So I attempted to find it via the downloadable Synology Assistant. At first I couldn’t find it there either (Yikes!), but then I realized I was crossing VLANS and the traffic was probably being blocked.
Ok, now I can at least see it, and low and behold DSM isn’t installed on it – so much for “95%”.
Should be easy at this point, just run the install and tada. Sadly, this is the error I continually received.
As part of the install process it prompts you to input both the networking configuration and the admin password prior to getting to this point. Seeing the error, I then telnet’ed into the machine, but the password I had set it to never worked.
Some searching later, I found a link that outlined the recovery password.
So, let’s say today is October 15, the password would be: a10-0f05 (a = month in hex, 10 = month in dec, 0f = day in hex, 05 = greatest divisor between 10 and 15).
In some cases the clock is also set to factory default… then try the password: 101-0101
Additionally, by default the TZ is in UTC, so account for that in the day.
The install logs are located at /var/log/messages, and cat’ing that I saw the following:
Feb 4 00:26:38 kernel: [ 3393.572368] ata3: SError: { HostInt 10B8B }
Feb 4 00:26:38 kernel: [ 3393.576648] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
Feb 4 00:26:38 kernel: [ 3393.581931] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 16384 in
Feb 4 00:26:38 kernel: [ 3393.581934] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x44 (timeout)
Feb 4 00:26:38 kernel: [ 3393.597037] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Feb 4 00:26:40 kernel: [ 3396.226915] ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 4 00:26:42 kernel: [ 3398.543647] ata3.00: disabled
Feb 4 00:26:42 kernel: [ 3398.546712] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.565298] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.594016] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 0
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.599194] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.604882] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.610580] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.610705] sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.610792] sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.610815] sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.610858] sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.638050] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 3
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3398.672656] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] START_STOP FAILED
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: format start, szBuf = ^R4VxSYNONI^A^D^A
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:1314 No found '/.raid_assemble', skip it
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2235 CleanPartition=[0], CheckBadblocks=[0]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2296(ErrFHOSTDoFdiskFormat) retv=[0]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ErrFHOSTTcpResponseCmd: cmd=[2], ulErr=[0]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: query prog, szBuf = ^R4VxSYNONI^A^D^A
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2150(ErrFHOSTUpdateMkfsProgress) gInstallStage=[3] ret:-34
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: index=[0], ulRate=[8]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2221(ErrFHOSTUpdateMkfsProgress) retv=-34
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:1423(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller) read socket fail, ret=[0], errno=[2]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:1512(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller) retSel=[1] err=(2)[No such file or directory]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:1527(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller)
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: Return from TcpServer()
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3399.370817] md: md1: set sda2 to auto_remap [0]
Feb 4 00:26:43 kernel: [ 3399.401536] md: md0: set sda1 to auto_remap [0]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: raidtool.c:166 Failed to create RAID '/dev/md0' on ''
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: raidtool.c:166 Failed to create RAID '/dev/md1' on ''
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2249 szCmd=[/etc/installer.sh -n > /dev/null 2>&1], retv=[1]
Feb 4 00:26:43 syslog: ninstaller.c:2293 retv=[1]Lots more searching of the some of the errors didn’t really get me any real answer, but I was able to find a forum post that seemed relevant that had a link to the web archive of a website that didn’t exist anymore. While that link was about a failed array, looking at my log files it appeared as if the installer couldn’t create the base RAID for a few drives.
While telnet’ed in, a look at my arrays returned with the following:
>cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
unused devices: <none>At this point I tried various things with my drives. I removed them all and tried to run the install again, I tried with a single drive, multiple drives and so on to no avail. I even repartitioned one of the drives on my laptop to be “clean” and tried again. Sadly, none of these worked. Finally, with not much else to try, and after looking at the web archive article how they recreated the array, I decided to try and create it manually via the same tool.
Below is the what I ran and the associated output, which gave me something similar to what is shown in that article for those two arrays.
>mdadm -Cf /dev/md0 -n1 -l1 /dev/sda1
>mdadm -CF /dev/md1 -n1 -l1 /dev/sdb1
>cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
2097088 blocks [5/1] [U____]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
2490176 blocks [5/1] [U____]
unused devices: <none>I then attempted to run the install again, using the same static IP address as I had done before to keep my telnet connection alive, but no love. Quickly looking at the log and seeing similar issues about disk formatting, I figured it hadn’t worked.
Feb 4 00:36:03 kernel: [ 3958.866984] ata1: device unplugged sstatus 0x0
Feb 4 00:36:03 kernel: [ 3958.871556] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4010000 action 0xe frozen
Feb 4 00:36:03 kernel: [ 3958.879115] ata1: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed
Feb 4 00:36:03 kernel: [ 3958.885282] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg DevExch }
Feb 4 00:36:06 kernel: [ 3961.934818] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 4 00:36:08 kernel: [ 3963.663357] ata1: device plugged sstatus 0x1
Feb 4 00:36:13 kernel: [ 3969.024334] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
Feb 4 00:36:18 kernel: [ 3973.721782] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Feb 4 00:36:20 kernel: [ 3975.681496] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19)
Feb 4 00:36:20 kernel: [ 3975.686574] ata1.00: disabled
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: format start, szBuf = ^R4VxSYNONI^A^D^A
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:1314 No found '/.raid_assemble', skip it
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:2235 CleanPartition=[0], CheckBadblocks=[0]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:2296(ErrFHOSTDoFdiskFormat) retv=[0]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ErrFHOSTTcpResponseCmd: cmd=[2], ulErr=[0]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: query prog, szBuf = ^R4VxSYNONI^A^D^A
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:2150(ErrFHOSTUpdateMkfsProgress) gInstallStage=[3] ret:-34
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: index=[0], ulRate=[9]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:2221(ErrFHOSTUpdateMkfsProgress) retv=-34
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:1423(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller) read socket fail, ret=[0], errno=[2]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:1512(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller) retSel=[1] err=(2)[No such file or directory]
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: ninstaller.c:1527(ErrFHOSTNetInstaller)
Feb 4 00:37:03 syslog: Return from TcpServer()
Feb 4 00:37:05 syslog: ninstaller.c:1199(ErrFHOSTTcpServer) bind port 9998 error (98):Address already in use
Feb 4 00:37:05 syslog: Return from TcpServer()At this point, I decided as a last ditch effort to open a ticket with Synology. Knowing this thing was so out of support I put a bit of a cry for help at the beginning. But after creating the ticket, I looked more at the log file and realized it wasn’t complaining about the md0 and md1 anymore, and instead focused on the last item…”Address already in use”. Huh, weird.
So I reran the installation again, but picked the next open IP address and not the one that I had used previously…and to my great surprise it actually worked!
After a few reboots, I’m now back into the web UI! There was no volume that was created, but all 5 of my drives are up and running – which is good because I wanted to properly wipe them anyways. Yay!
**Update as of 1/05/24** I’ve move away from Longhorn. When it works, it works well, but when it does it’s insanely complex to troubleshoot. Plus, I don’t have a lot of storage on my nodes right now. Maybe when I do a node hardware refresh I’ll revisit.
I’ve been doing a bit of housekeeping on the home k8s cluster, and one of the things I’m doing is moving from microk8s to k3s. This isn’t really a post about that, but long story short, it’s because of how microk8s does a non-existant job of updating addons, and you basically have to use the DNS (coreDNS) addon as I could never get that to work as a normal helm chart (even with updating the kubelet config).
Anyways as part of that change, I need to create a new cluster, get longhorn running, and restore the volumes it was running in the old cluster. Thankfully, I had tested most of this prior to becoming reliant on longhorn, so I knew the backup and restore process worked well – just point the backTarget variable for longhorn on the new cluster to the same place as the old cluster and magic happens. Unfortunately, I ran into a snag.
The volume restored properly, and I was able to recreate the PVC with the same name, but the deployment kept complaining about it and my Influx DB wouldn’t mount the drive. It kept throwing the error
Attach failed for volume : CSINode does not contain driver driver.longhorn.ioThis was super odd though, I could create a new PVC with the same longhorn StorageClass and it would mount. WTF?!
Well, lo-and-behold it was because when I built the new cluster, I decided to use the newest version of longhorn – 1.4.1 – as you do. However, the old cluster was still on 1.4.0, as were the backups. During any upgrades of longhorn, you must do an engine upgrade to the volume. Needless to say, the backups were on engine 1.4.0 (driver), but I only had 1.4.1 (driver) running as I was never prompted to upgrade the engine on the volume when restoring it. So yes, the error message was factual, if not incredibly frustrating.
So, note to self (and others) – when restoring a longhorn volume from backup, make sure you are running the same version as from when the backup was taken. Once the volume is successfully restored and running, you can then upgrade to the latest version via the update steps, and update the engine on the volume. Sadly, there didn’t appear to be a way to do that after the restore, and tbh I didn’t look to see what version was listed as the Engine Image after the restore. I’m just thankful it’s back up and running!
**Update April-ish 2023** So at some point in the past, the printer began falling off the network again. It lasted many months, but something changed (unifi firmware, printer firmware, who knows). The good news though is that I was able to fix it again for the time being!
I was noticing it was falling off at night, which was odd. The only thing going on at night was…Nightly Channel Optimizations. Well, in the latest Unifi Controller (I’m on 7.3.83), you have the ability to exclude specific APs from doing those optimizations. As I had tied the printer to the single AP, I just added that to the exclusion and…tada it’s been on the network for the last 29 days again. Talk about frustrating – this is totally a Brother Wifi thing as no other device in the house has this problem.
And back to the original article…
Having your printer continual to fall off WiFi is the worst. Whenever you actually want to print something, lo-and-behold, you can’t, and you need to spend 2-20 mins fiddling with it to get it back on the network. While all mine took was a printer restart for it to magically reconnect to wifi, this is always how I felt.
After enough frustration, I finally took some time to sit down and fix the problem. After a bit of searching, I stumbled upon this Brother article (granted I’m printing from a Windows PC and my specific printer is a Brother MFC-L2750DW). That at least gave me some hope, as I was using a single SSID for both 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz – you know, like a sane person.
With the above article in hand, I created a new SSID that was only on the 2.4Ghz with the following settings (Unifi Controller 7.0.23):
New UI:
Legacy UI:
The printer has been online for over 20 days, whereas before it would fall off the network sometimes before it even fell asleep. 🎉🎉
Hopefully this helps someone else out there.
We may have had an issue with a young “midnight surfer” on the internet one night, and it has since taken me a wild ride of VLANs, schedules, traffic shaping, RADIUS servers and SSIDs. I’ll give a bit of an abbreviated journey so you can relive the fun, but the important takeaway is how to do MAC-based port authentication on the switch while also doing it on the WLAN, and having both have the same fallback VLAN.
TL;DR – Having DEFAULT Accept auth-type that assigns a specific VLAN, works for WLAN clients on Unifi APs but does not work for MAC-based authentication on Unifi Switches. This is regardless of specifying a fallback network in the switch configuration or not. Instead, you should use the fallback network in the switch config and scope the Default user to only authenticate for devices on the APs via a huntgroup.
So, have your last user in the user’s config file (i.e. the fallback) look like the following:
DEFAULT Huntgroup-Name == "<huntgroupname>", Auth-Type := Accept
Tunnel-Type = VLAN,
Tunnel-Medium-Type = IEEE-802,
Tunnel-Private-Group-ID = "<vlanID>"Instead of:
DEFAULT Auth-Type := Accept
Tunnel-Type = VLAN,
Tunnel-Medium-Type = IEEE-802,
Tunnel-Private-Group-ID = "<vlanID>"Back to our “midnight surfer” – I woke up one night to some giggling to find my son had decided to use an old phone we have to watch tiktok videos. I knew this day would come but was just surprised it had come so fast/soon. Good thing I have all the technology required to lock this down!
My home networking consists of the following equipment:
Between the Qotom and the switch I have a 4-port link aggregation. Do I need 4Gbps between the router and the switch? Probably not, but I’m not using the ports anyways, and why not?! Additionally all the APs have a wired uplink to the switch.
Iteration 1 of the setup was to create 4 VLANs (Trusted, Guest, IoT, and Kids) and have them map to different SSIDs and manually specify the port VLAN on the switches – using a VLAN trunk for the wired APs and the link aggregation to the router. This setup was quick, easy, and worked! However, maintenance was a pain as I now had 3 new SSIDs that I needed to track the passwords for and getting devices onto the new network(s) – and any future devices – was a pain. Additionally, I use a wired connection for my work machine, but I also plug in my personal laptop to the same hub which connects to the same port. Yeah, I could use one of the USW-Flex-Minis and swap the connection the hub everytime, but let’s be honest – that’s annoying. Instead, I knew there had to be a better way.
Low and behold, there is – using a RADIUS server! Oh, and look at that, the incredibly powerful pfSense has a freeRADIUS package!
The initial configuration was pretty simple for wireless:
Unfortunately, there is no fallback network/VLAN that you can define in the Unifi Controller for wireless networks. This is unfortunate and would’ve solved a lot of time later. However, you can define your own.
By default, if the user is not in the list, freeRADIUS will send a REJECT answer. However, we can enable a fallback user by setting the username and password as blank, specifying the fallback VLAN ID, adding “DEFAULT Auth-Type := Accept” to the top of this entry, and ensuring this client always the last user in the list as users are identified top-to-bottom.
After doing all that, I was able to move all my wireless clients back to the original SSID I had just moved them off of the previous weekend, and they still have the proper VLAN segregation. Woohoo!
Now, on to the switch ports – which was a multi-hour frustration, granted, it was late, and there was beer involved.
Assuming you’ve added users in the RADIUS server for every MAC address on the network, it’ll all just work! Unfortunately, any MAC addresses that are picked up by the DEFAULT rule added in earlier, will not authenticate on the Unifi switch. The RADIUS server correctly authenticates the unknown MAC address and responds with the correct VLAN (as seen in the freeRADIUS logs), but the response message doesn’t contain all the same info which is probably why the switch doesn’t accept it.
To fix the failback you need to scope the DEFAULT user config to only be for your wireless APs. Once that is done, unknown clients to the RADIUS server from the switch will fail authentication and then the switch will use the Fallback VLAN you configured earlier on the switch config.
If you only have one AP, you can edit your DEFAULT user config directly as seen in the code snipped below by replacing <IPAddress> with the IP address of your AP:
DEFAULT NAS-IP-Address == <IPAddress>, Auth-Type := Accept
For more than 1 AP, it’s easier to create a huntgroup so you can reference all APs at once.
# huntgroups This file defines the `huntgroups' that you have. A
# huntgroup is defined by specifying the IP address of
# the NAS and possibly a port.
#
# Matching is done while RADIUS scans the user file; if it
# includes the selection criteria "Huntgroup-Name == XXX"
# the huntgroup is looked up in this file to see if it
# matches. There can be multiple definitions of the same
# huntgroup; the first one that matches will be used.
#
# This file can also be used to define restricted access
# to certain huntgroups. The second and following lines
# define the access restrictions (based on username and
# UNIX usergroup) for the huntgroup.
#
#
# Our POP in Alphen a/d Rijn has 3 terminal servers. Create a Huntgroup-Name
# called Alphen that matches on all three terminal servers.
#
#alphen NAS-IP-Address == 192.0.2.5
#alphen NAS-IP-Address == 192.0.2.6
#alphen NAS-IP-Address == 192.0.2.7
#
# My home configuration
<huntgroupName> NAS-IP-Address == <IPAddress1>
<huntgroupName> NAS-IP-Address == <IPAddress2>
<huntgroupName> NAS-IP-Address == <IPAddress3>DEFAULT Huntgroup-Name == "<huntgroupName>", Auth-Type := Accept
And…TADA! Now your wireless and wired devices all get tagged with an appropriate or fallback VLAN!
UPDATE: Grrr, after a freeradius update, it seems to have overwritten the huntgroups file. That made it super fun to have a failback – would really nice if Unifi APs would have a fallback VLAN by default.
References:
I’ve been fighting this for awhile (as have a few others based on some google searches), and now that I have it resolved I figured I’d post it here.
High level, I’ve had a Surface Ergonomic Keyboard for awhile, and absolutely love it. However, recently I upgraded from a Surface Pro 5 to a Surface Pro 7 and the keyboard keeps going to sleep – taking forever to wake back up. I’ve been on calls, just hammering the windows key to get it to wake up. Needless to say it’s been super annoying as waiting for 30 seconds or more for your keyboard to start responding again is not ideal for productivity (or sanity).
I’ve seen a few places that I just need to turn off the “allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. However, it took me a bit to figure out which one. Turns out it’s not until you select Change settings that you can see the Power Management tab in device hardware. So without further ado…
Open Control Panel
Select View devices and Printers (or if your control panel lists all the icons, select Devices and Printers).
Select properties of the Ergonomic Keyboard and go to the Hardware tab
Select Bluetooth Low Energy GATT compliant HID device and select Properties
Click the Change settings button- tada Power Management tab!
Select the Power Management tab, unselect Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power and click the OK buttons until you are back at the devices and printers screen. Yay, now it doesn’t go to sleep!
If for some reason you still don’t see the Power Management tab, you can do the following actions:
I’ve been using OpenVPN for a few things and I’ve been very interested in setting up WireGuard instead as it has a lot less overhead and is less cumbersome than OpenVPN. Well I finally took the plunge last night and it was surprisingly easy after only a few missteps!
One of my use cases is to tunnel all traffic to the VPN server, so it appears as if my internet traffic originates from the VPN server. Here is how I set it up (with thanks to a few other articles).
Install WireGuard on the server. I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and so I had to add the repository.
Move to the /etc/wireguard directory (you may need to sudo su)
Generate the public and private keys by running the following commands. This will create two files (privatekey and publickey) in the /etc/wireguard so you can re-reference them while building out the config.
$ umask 077 # This makes sure credentials don't leak in a race condition.
$ wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey
Create the server config file (/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf). Things to note:
<Server Private Key>. Wireguard doesn’t support file references at this time.[Interface] Address = 100.62.0.1/24 PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE ListenPort = 51820 PrivateKey = <Server Private Key> [Peer] PublicKey = <Client1 Public Key> AllowedIPs = 100.62.0.2/32 [Peer] PublicKey = <Client2 Public Key> AllowedIPs = 100.62.0.3/32
Test the configuration with wg-quick
root@wg ~# wg-quick up wg0 [#] ip link add wg0 type wireguard [#] wg setconf wg0 /dev/fd/63 [#] ip address add 100.62.0.1/24 dev wg0 [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev wg0
Remove the interface with wg-quick
root@wg ~# wg-quick down wg0 [#] ip link delete dev wg0
Use systemd service to start the interface automatically at boot
systemctl start wg-quick@wg0 systemctl enable wg-quick@wg0
To forward traffic of the client through the server, we need to enable routing on the server
echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" > /etc/sysctl.d/wg.conf sysctl --system
100.62.0.2/32Now that the client has a public key, you need to update /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
[Peer] PublicKey = <INSERT PUBLIC KEY> AllowedIPs = 100.62.0.2/32
Restart the wireguard service
systemctl restart wg-quick@wg0
Within the wireguard app, enable the VPN.
You can validate by visiting ipleak.net to verify that traffic is going through the VPN.
Well, it’s getting close to that time to re-evaluate backups as I think my $2.50/month backup plan is going away in July.
So far, there’s a few things I’ve looked at, but interested in what others are thinking (if anyone even reads this anymore).
Some background – in CrashPlan my backup set is currently 1.3TB. However, a lot of that is versions.
Well, I’m doing it (migrating my CrashPlan account – see previous post with updates)! This is primarily because I get the feeling the discount will disappear at the end of the month when they officially stop supporting home. For those that haven’t gone through the steps, just taking screenshots as an FYI. Additionally check out the other post as to how I’m managing non-NAS backups.
The UI when you log into your account (same user/pass) is now way different/better than the home one. Plus I get some of my storage back on my NAS due to it deleting computer-to-computer backups.
Boo, just got the email today that CrashPlan is leaving the home market. After I don’t know how many years, it looks like I’ll have to find another provider. It looks like there are a few, but with no computer-to-computer options baked in all will be a step back. *sigh*
**Update 8/23/2017**
I’ve been following a lot of different threads on this. Sadly, there are no direct competitors. Turns out CrashPlan (even with the crappy Java app) was the best for a lot of reasons including the following:
Total sidebar, but speaking of crappy Java apps, I had just migrated to using a docker image of CrashPlan too due the continued pain of updating it with Patter’s awesome SPK. Yay to running everything in docker now instead of native Synology apps.
My current setup consists of 3 Windows machines and a Synology NAS. I had the CrashPlan family account so each of those machines would sync to the cloud, and all the windows machines would sync to the NAS. Nothing crazy, and yes, I know I was missing a 3rd location for NAS storage for those following the 3-2-1 method.
The other cloud options I’ve looked at so far:
So where does that leave me? I’m hopefully optimistic about companies getting more feature parity, and thankfully my subscription doesn’t expire until July of 2018. Therefore, while I’m doing some work, I’m firmly in the “wait and see” camp at this point. However, if I were to move right now, this is what my setup would look like:
Hopefully this helps others, and I’ll keep updating this post based on what I see/move towards. Feel free to add your ideas into the comments too.
Just saw this announcement from MSFT. Could be an interesting archival strategy if tools start to utilize it – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-archive-blob-storage-and-blob-level-tiering/
**Update 10/11/2017**
A quick update on some things that have changed. I’ve moved away from Comcast, and now have Fiber! That means, no more caps (and 1Gbps speeds), so I’m more confident to go with my ideas above. So far this is what I’ve done:
CrashPlan’s Windows Exclusions – based on Java Regex
.*/(?:42|\d{8,}).*/(?:cp|~).*
(?i).*/CrashPlan.*/(?:cache|log|conf|manifest|upgrade)/.*
.*\.part
.*/iPhoto Library/iPod Photo Cache/.*
.*\.cprestoretmp.*
.*/Music/Subscription/.*
(?i).*/Google/Chrome/.*cache.*
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