Backup your NAS with CrashPlan!

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to backup your NAS with Crashplan! It is surprisingly easily and it just takes a couple lines of code! Basically, you are just creating a symbolic link between a folder on your computer and a remote network location such as network attached storage device.

Here is the code:
mklink /d "F:\3tb-crashplan-nas" "\\srvr1\3tb"

You would want to sub in the location where you want the symbolic link to exist as well as the name of the SMB server/windows share.

[Gosuzilla]

Thank you so much for posting this video. I was pulling my hair out with the net use bat script with scheduled task option that just didn't work. Your suggestion worked for me on the first try. So much easier!

[DigChaos]

Thanks, this was helpful. One thing that should probably be mentioned is it won't let select the linked directory if you install under "all users", you have to select single user. If you've already installed it under All users you have to reinstall CrashPlan application.

[hahahacho]

Thanks for the video. Does this mean you must have your pc/laptop powered on and connected to the network in order to backup synology data? You cannot backup Synology to Crashplan without PC, right?

[keithwing]

Finally, an easy fix, for such a glaring deficiency, on an otherwise great service.