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[Bennor]

@LaMpiR

I was looking anyway to upgrading my nas to support some type of raid 1 in order to get the proper backup function.

One typically won’t get RAID in any fashion on a single bay NAS unit. At most one might get some sort of software RAID on other software based NAS programs. If one wants true RAID then they’ll need to buy a multi bay NAS box.

For the single bay My Cloud the best one can do is use the Safepoint / Backup feature to back up the My Cloud contents to another drive or location. Or one can use SSH to create a script (using Rsync or similar) to copy My Cloud files/content to another location. At least one can on OS3 firmware. Not sure if this is possible anymore on 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

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 …

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…