[Tfug] Western DIgital MyCloud

Tue Jan 7 12:29:18 MST 2014

Yeah, funny thing is if your NAS box is arm7 you could probably run crouton
on there: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:56 AM, JD Rogers <rogersjd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hrmm.. running a chroot. Now there is any interesting idea.
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Zack Breckenridge <zbrdge at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>
>>> 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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