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WD My Cloud as distant backup

Why not simply put the My Cloud behind a router at the remote location and enable port forwarding? How is the My Cloud obtaining a “public” IP address, and what would the My Cloud be connected too?

By using a router and port forwarding you can block access to the My Cloud except for ports 22 and 443. Otherwise you’ll probably have to muck around using SSH to tun off devices within the My Cloud or configure specific ports.

Use the forum search feature, magnifying glass icon upper right, if you haven’t already. There is much past discussion on using Rsync, SSH, SFTP and backing up to a remote My Cloud. Here are just a few past discussions:

http://community.wd.com/t/howto-securing-ssh-with-private-encryption-key-and-passphrasec-for-remote-connection/95780

http://community.wd.com/t/sshd-user-access-is-denied-trying-to-setup-remote-nas-backup-from-ex2100-to-2tb-my-cloud/165072

http://community.wd.com/t/how-to-setup-sftp-on-my-cloud/152297

http://community.wd.com/t/my-cloud-replication-over-the-internet/95670

http://community.wd.com/t/backup-to-mycloud-from-another-network/165307

http://community.wd.com/t/remote-backup-issues-help/164458

http://community.wd.com/t/remote-access-and-backup/161471

http://community.wd.com/t/help-new-customer-keeping-the-drive-at-another-location/161354

http://community.wd.com/t/back-up-devices-to-a-remote-my-cloud/155950

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