Yes using WD’s local or remote backup (or Safepoint for OS3 users) has its own flaws. One major one being the inability to use a single bay second gen OS5 firmware My Cloud as a remote backup target. WD set it up so the multi bay models can be backup targets for OS5 remote backups but not the single bay. Stupid. The other flaw is OS3 Safepoint just fails sometimes with no indication why so a user can track down and fix the cause. Frustrating.
The flaky Safepoint was the main reason I moved (at the time) to using a rsync with email notification script to backup a first gen single bay My Cloud to a USB hard drive. Even made a post about using rsync to back up that first gen single bay My Cloud to a Synology NAS. With rsync one can combine it with nohup command to have it run after shutting down or disconnecting the computer from the My Cloud.
Alternative to Safepoint - reposted
Happy accident - INCLUDES AN ALTERNATIVE TO SAFEPOINT
Problem is, using SSH/rsync typically requires some extra computer knowledge and skill to get working properly. Not everyone wants to go geek like that and want something much simpler and familiar like Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder, hence File Station in the Synology DSM NAS operating system.
