[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

Tue Jan 7 11:53:40 MST 2014

Hah, interesting. I guess rsync is so ubiquitous, I had never run into a
machine without it. I used u.arizona enough, but I guess not with rsync. Or
maybe it changed at some point. Good to know.

The pity is that I have become a total 'user' and don't have enough time to
tinker like I used to.. I just have to be content when things work with
minimal effort. You will have to let me know what successes and failure you
have, especially comparing the NAS solutions.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Leo Przybylski <r351574nc3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually, you need rsync and ssh on both machines if you want to push
> files. When you call rsync to copy files to another machine, the other
> machine must also have rsync to receive the data. You can test this
> out at u.arizona.edu. It runs ssh without rsync. rsync won't work. You
> will see
>
> bash: rsync: command not found
>
> Leo
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 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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