First the bad… you just voided the warranty on new MBL as well.
The good… MBL does not encrypt the data. Hardly any NAS does, as far as I know. You just needed a way to read ext3 partitions.
This was the guide we referred you to…
http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/GUIDE-How-to-unbrick-a-totally-dead-MBL/td-p/435724
Step 2 deals with backup recovery.
Anyhow… my .02. buy a diskless NAS and add your own disk to it. There are a few options, at some point I had a dlink.
From there, the options are limitless for backup.
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Back up NAS to NAS using rsync
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Backup PC to two different NAS
etc.
BTW, MBL has no USB, or eSATA. So you cannot plug anything to it.
