[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

[JD Rogers]

Hrmm.. running a chroot. Now there is any interesting idea.



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Zack Breckenridge <zbrdge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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