[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[Leo Przybylski]

I just found rsync on mine which is great news for linux users. You
don't have to use cifs, smbfs, or nfs for transfers. You can just use
rsync to handle your backups. With a few scripts and incremental
backup solution should be possible.

Leo

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Leo Przybylski <r351574nc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also got a pogoplug and a drobos mini. I want to compare the 3 and
> see which is a better NAS. Obviously, they have different markets, but
> there is some crossover.
>
> Leo
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Leo Przybylski <r351574nc3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wow! That's some coincidence. I just got the EX4.
>>
>> I haven't modified mine yet, but I did snoop around. It runs a twonky
>> media server and lighttpd, so this opens up a whole world of
>> possibilities. I've heard in the community that the lighttpd app for
>> management will crash because of hung processes like convert. My guess
>> is that when you flip the switch for media serving on your share, it
>> will run scripts against files once they've been copied. This is
>> probably for the twonky media server and the cloud sharing. Their
>> scripts are probably buggy and don't handle simultaneous executions
>> very well or at all. Sooooo... the plan is to do some hacking and find
>> out why the crashes happen and fix it. Also, I want to get rid of
>> twonky and replace it with something like plex while still having the
>> benefit of the cloud.
>>
>> Leo
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone else played with these? I just bought a 4TB MyCloud because I wanted
>>> cheap NAS with low power consumption. I confess, in an uncharacteristic
>>> impulse buy, I didn't really 'read up' very thoroughly before ordering. So
>>> when I started getting annoyed with the web interface after 30s, I was
>>> pleased to find I could ssh to it (as root) and use rsync.
>>>
>>> Then I started poking around and was surprised when I found a
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list that points to debian wheezy. An ARM processor running
>>> debian out of the box. Sweet. When you enable ssh, you have to acknowledge
>>> that "modifying" the system voids the warranty, but I figure it is worth it.
>>>
>>> Has anyone here done anything cool with one of these? I was thinking of
>>> trying to get dmcrypt/luks working, or maybe just encfs and some cron
>>> tweaks.
>>> JDR
>>>
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