Can I directly write data to USB devices from MyCloud NAS?

[Bennor]

Yes some of the My Cloud Dashboard backup options were a bit half baked. They worked but you never knew when it wouldn’t.

Personally, I went to using CRON and scripting the backup (file copy) from the main My Cloud drive to a USB drive attached to the My Cloud’s USB port. Even scripted it to send me an email when finished. Set the CRON job to run on scheduled days/times. The advantage was I could control what I backed up rather than it being an all or nothing affair with the WD method. We had a number of discussions on alternatives to WD’s backup option in the single bay OS3 My Cloud subforum years back. Should work on multi bay units but not sure if it would work under OS5 firmware.

Happy accident - INCLUDES AN ALTERNATIVE TO SAFEPOINT

My 13 month old 4TB WDMC has been giving me sporadic problems for some time now, losing network connection, media stuttering, all sorts. I’ve ‘tinkered at the edges’ to keep things going but all to no avail, things have kept going wrong. I do have a certain amount of tech knowledge, so I knew what I was doing. Then one day last week I managed to accidentally hit the ‘Quick restore’ button on the dashboard, don’t ask me how, I even managed to hit the confirmation button as well, so within second…

Alternative to Safepoint - reposted

Bumping this old thread. Used a variation of the code whsbuss posted above to backup select folders to an attached USB hard drive. While the following code isn’t elegant and there are probably better ways to code it, it does appear to work for me. The following mail.py code will use Yahoo.com email and will attach the backup.log file to the email. #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import smtplib from email.header import Header from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from em…

Sending email with python on WD My Cloud

first SSH to your device, then input the following: cd / nano mail.py change your email, password, recipient and smtp server in the following then paste on terminal (right click on putty): #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from email.header import Header from email.mime.text import MIMEText from getpass import getpass from smtplib import SMTP_SSL import sys #edit the line below login, password, server, recipients = "youremail@gmail.com", "password", "smtp.gmai…

The main downside to using Teracopy (good program use it myself on occasion) to using WinSCP to using Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder to connecting the USB drive to the Windows/Mac computer to copy files is one will have to leave that computer running for the entire time of the backup/copy process. For a large amount of content that could take many hours or even days. Depending on the method used one may not be able to use the computer for any other purpose during that backup/copy process (computer may be sluggish doing other tasks).

That’s why the nohup command issued with the backup/copy command via SSH is (for some) a better way to go if one doesn’t want to use a scripted CRON job on the My Cloud itself. Both ways (nohup and CRON) will run entirely on the My Cloud. For some this is a better way to go than using a computer that has to be left running for many hours or days.