MyCloud and MyCloud Home On Same LAN

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Ok Ive searched and searched but cant find out if what I want to do is possible but everything I read before I bought the Mycloud Home device seemed to make me think I can do what I want to do.

My Mcloud device is a few years old (4Tb Drive) and Its getting to the stage where I am concerned if it fails that I will lose a bunch of stuff.

I bought a new 4TB Mycloud Home device and I had hoped to have them sync the same way the old WDMcloud devices should have done (I cant buy the older device now I dont think other than used) but I cant find a way to do this.

So I have 2 x WD Devices @ 4TB each that i essentially want to either mirror or have 1 of them sync to the other nightly etc …

Can this be done at all?

-Gordon

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I was essentially in exactly the same position as you, except I had a MyBook Live.

Look at FreeFileSync >> https://freefilesync.org/

and you should be able to achieve what you want to do.

Unfortunately the software utilities provided for the MyCloud Home by WD are very limited

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Thanks for this.

Whilst it will do what I need it unfortunately needs to be proactively kicked off on the Mac and doesn’t seem to just let these 2 devices work together without the Mac/pc running the program.

Or have I missed something?

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sorry don’t use mac but did you look at the realtime sync options in the tutorial section of their website

and of course the mac would have to be running

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The issue is really the Mac having to run for it to work . real time sync is great but with multiple devices adding data it’d be , I think , unsync’d until I fired up the Mac …

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yes, but you have no other option afaik