UNLIMITED CLOUD STORAGE - Synology + Crashplan - $10/month

About this video

Chuck replaces a single 10-terabyte external hard drive — which he calls a single point of failure — with a Synology NAS and backs it up to CrashPlan for what he presents as unlimited cloud storage. He says Synology sent him the DS219+ unit for free, fitted in his account with three 6-terabyte drives, 8 gigabytes of memory and a quad-core CPU, also serving as his Plex server and VM backup. Because Synology has no native CrashPlan app, he installs a community Docker container for CrashPlan Pro for small business inside Synology’s Docker package, downloads the latest image from the registry, and launches it with a 1-gigabyte memory limit. He maps his storage folder into the container, creates a dedicated CrashPlan user on the NAS, retrieves its user ID (1028 in his setup) and group ID (100) over SSH, and enters those in the container’s environment so CrashPlan can read the files. He then selects folders and the CrashPlan online destination in the web UI. He states CrashPlan costs $10 a month per device, recommends it for personal and small-business use, and suggests Azure, AWS or Google Cloud for medium to large businesses.

Key takeaways

• The core pitch is Synology NAS plus CrashPlan Pro at $10/month per device, using the NAS as the single device that holds everything
• CrashPlan has no native Synology app, so the workaround is a community Docker container installed via Synology’s registry
• The container must be mapped to the NAS storage folder and run with the dedicated user’s UID/GID, found via SSH, or it cannot see the files
• RAID on the NAS protects against a drive failure but not loss of the box itself, which is why Chuck adds the off-site cloud copy
• Chuck discloses Synology sent the unit free and says he is not sponsored by CrashPlan; he steers larger businesses to Azure, AWS or Google Cloud

Episode details: published May 15, 2019 · 16:26 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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