Best Practices for backing up laptops and streaming the backed up data

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Why not consolidate all your music collections from the various PCs into one repository on the MyCloud? Then access this music library from each PC?

I have all my music stored on MyCloud, and access it using MediaMonkey as a network drive on two PCs, and via DLNA using various Android devices. I have no media stored on any of these devices.

I back up the MyCloud to a USB HDD. I don’t use any of the WD backup or sync apps…

This might help you with the DLNA side of things:

'[FAQ] Twonky DLNA Media Server Setup & Use

Some Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Twonky, And Some Answers The MyCloud includes a Twonky DLNA Media Server. Sadly it doesn’t seem very well integrated into the MyCloud, and the two fight for supremacy. I’ve spent a long time trying to understand how it works, and reading the forum, I see many other people also have trouble with it. So I thought that, rather than trying to answer these questions individually, I’d try to write an FAQ covering the things I’ve found, and the problems I or …