[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[Zack Breckenridge]

It's nice the amount of consumer grade ARM boxes coming out that you can
just buy and start working with. The Samsung ARM chromebook is a great
example - just got one and used crouton to set up an ubuntu chroot...
Actually modifying the kernel and running a different OS is harder but not
impossible. Anyway, it's enough to get work done.
On Jan 7, 2014 11:08 AM, "JD Rogers" <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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