NAS firmware upgrade breaks mono (wrong mono version)

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Installing Duplicati on a NetGear NAS is not a reliable platform because firmware updates tend to be unstable and break things. It’s a beautiful piece of hardware, but my goodness has it given me headaches.

I assume you have seen this?

Installing Duplicati on a Netgear ReadyNAS

This article describes how I did get Duplicati working on a Netgear ReadyNAS. Due to my very limited Linux skills I suppose there are a number of things that could be done better, so feel free to comment what could be improved. A ReadyNAS running ReadyNAS OS6 is required. Older models running RAIDiator (like the ReadyNAS Duo and ReadyNAS Ultra) are based on an ancient Debian version that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for installing Duplicati. Create a new shared folder. Give it the na…

If so, please feel welcome to reply to that how-to topic, explaining why you would not recommend installing duplicati on a ReadyNAS. That could save others from those headaches.

Personally, I am considering upgrading my ReadyNAS Ultra to OS6 (because mono doesn’t run on the old RAIDiator firmware) just ti be able to run duplicati. But it looks like it’s not worth the trouble?