USB Backup

[Bennor]

If the Backup feature of the v2.x firmware doesn’t perform like you want it to, one option is to hack the My Cloud firmware and create your own backup system using Rsync. This would allow you to backup specific folders/Shares and to do so at specific times. There is discussion on how to do so with the first gen v4.x firmware in the following thread. Chances are one could probably do something similar on the second gen v2.x firmware.

Alternative to Safepoint - reposted

I posted an alternative to Safepoint under a previous posting commencing “Happy accident…”. The move to the new forum style corrupted the formatting. Here, for anyone who wants it is my original post, correctly formatted. It’s worked well for me for five months now, including a disaster recovery that went smoothly, I appreciate that some of the scripts could possibly be more elegant to those more experienced than myself, but this does have one advantage - it works! This will back up any shares …