Hello, new to the community here. I have a wd mycloud set up on my local network, works fine for me. I have a windows 8 machine that I backup to the mycloud drive using crashplan, and that works great with both win8 node and the mycloud drive attached to my local network.
My question is this: has anyone successfully been able to get crashplan running on a windows 7 or 8 pc to backup to your wd mycloud drive over the internet? If you have, I would love to hear from you.
I have tried several methods I found by googling, but nothing successful so far.
Conversely, if anyone knows successfully doing this is currently impossible, I would like to know that as well.
You didn’t say what issue you’re encountering, but perhaps it will be fixed by following instructions in that link. If you simply mount a remote share and try to back up to it, it won’t work because CrashPlan runs under user SYSTEM and won’t have access to the share. The work around is to write a little script to map the the share under user SYSTEM’s authority.
Please note that although the article addresses backing up *from* a network drive, you would follow the same instructions to back up *to* a network drive.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Oops, I completely missed the part where you said “over the Internet”. Perhaps if you shared what problem you’re facing we could help.