[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[JD Rogers]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Leo Przybylski <r351574nc3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Yep, as long as it accepts ssh connections you can always rsync to it, but
its nice to be able to script rsync's from the device as well. Since I am
mostly using it to backup laptops that are suspended at night, I won't be
able to pull data, but at least I can push easily. I also noticed it
supports time machine, so for the mac's it is all set (though I haven't
tried it yet).


> 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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