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Mycloud single bay doesn't support remote backup

It was reported recently (see post below) that to backup a v2.x single bay My Cloud to another My Cloud one has to use use a My Cloud Mirror or better multi bay model that has the Remote Server option available. Stupid since one can backup a older gen v4.x firmware My Cloud to another older v4.x My Cloud, but that’s what is now being indicated.
http://community.wd.com/t/how-to-create-a-backup-from-wdmycloud-storage/181340/2

See the following WD Support document:
http://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=13854
From that support document:

My Cloud devices that support the Remote Server feature are listed below:
My Cloud Mirror
My Cloud Mirror (Gen 2)
My Cloud EX2
My Cloud EX2 Ultra
My Cloud EX4
My Cloud EX2100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100

Check the settings of the backup in the v2.x single bay My Cloud Dashboard to see if you can backup to another location on the local network, if so then you could backup to another location on the local network. Otherwise to backup to a remote location one may have to look into using Rsync or similar using SSH. Do a subforum search for Rsync for other discussions on using that unsupported backup/sync option to backup a My Cloud.

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