Backup my cloud to another external drive

[Bennor]

@FetaLovingGreek

Safepoint previously use to have an option to do so (to an attached USB) but it appears there is no way to do this automatically any longer.

The option is still there in Safepoint using the latest v4.x firmware for a single bay My Cloud.

As one steps through the process (or if you already have a Safepoint backup process created), one needs to set the Auto Update option to On to get the various options for setting up repeating backups.

Over time I found SafePoint to occasionally be problematic. I didn’t like that I couldn’t choose specific Shares or subfolders to backup, instead SafePoint is an all or nothing affair. So I wound up using Rsync and CRON to automate backing up specific Shares/folders on a specific schedule and then having an email sent indicating the success or failure of that backup. Some past threads on using Rsync and other firmware commands (via SSH) to backup Shares or folders.

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

Bumping this old thread. Used a variation of the code whsbuss posted above to backup select folders to an attached USB hard drive. While the following code isn’t elegant and there are probably better ways to code it, it does appear to work for me. The following mail.py code will use Yahoo.com email and will attach the backup.log file to the email. #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import smtplib from email.header import Header from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from em…

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…