Hello to all,
I try to find a way to make my WD My Cloud EX2 do the remote backup on the WD My Book Live I have.
With the new Firmware there is an option to add ssh password of the remote “server”. The username is by default “sshd” and i cant change it. On the other hand on my WD My Book Live I have enable the SSH hidden menu and its giving me the username “root” and password “wecl0me”. I have try to add an new user on this drive with the name “sshd” but it wont let me because the sshd mean ssh deamon.
Does anyone have solution on this problem?
Thanks
ElessarGR
Hi,
Through standards procedures, that’s not possible since the EX2 will perform remote backups to another EX2 or EX4. Currently, I haven’t try that to a WD My Book Live.
For more information about remote backups please see page 69 of the user manual.
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705119.pdf
Do you know if the My Book Live has Rsync installed on it? If so you could write a simple shell script that would backup the directories you specify from the EX2 to the My Book LIve. You would need to run your script from an open terminal. It’s not a big deal to log in and run it once a week or so to insure I have adequate backup.
Here is the meat of one of my scripts that I run from a Seagate NAS, keep in mind that you will have to change the directory structures and ip addresses to talor it to your needs.
rsync -azWP --exclude ‘.wdmc/*’ --delete -e ssh sshd@192.168.XXX.XXX:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/ /mnt/eSata/.users/admin/GoFlexx/WDBackup/
rsync will prompt you for a password when you run it like this against the EX2. The password it is looking for is your SSHD user password for the EX2.
The “–exclude” switch causes it to ignore all of the .wdmc files, the “–delete” tells it to delete files in the destination if they have been deleted on the source.
Try rsync --help for command line options, also there are many web pages with examples of rsync scripts if you do a google search on the subject.
ERmorel wrote:
Hi,
Through standards procedures, that’s not possible since the EX2 will perform remote backups to another EX2 or EX4. Currently, I haven’t try that to a WD My Book Live.
For more information about remote backups please see page 69 of the user manual.
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705119.pdf
this is the old manual. it havent been update yet after the last firmware was release.
Vertech1 wrote:
Do you know if the My Book Live has Rsync installed on it? If so you could write a simple shell script that would backup the directories you specify from the EX2 to the My Book LIve. You would need to run your script from an open terminal. It’s not a big deal to log in and run it once a week or so to insure I have adequate backup.
Here is the meat of one of my scripts that I run from a Seagate NAS, keep in mind that you will have to change the directory structures and ip addresses to talor it to your needs.
rsync -azWP --exclude ‘.wdmc/*’ --delete -e ssh sshd@192.168.XXX.XXX:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/ /mnt/eSata/.users/admin/GoFlexx/WDBackup/
rsync will prompt you for a password when you run it like this against the EX2. The password it is looking for is your SSHD user password for the EX2.
The “–exclude” switch causes it to ignore all of the .wdmc files, the “–delete” tells it to delete files in the destination if they have been deleted on the source.
Try rsync --help for command line options, also there are many web pages with examples of rsync scripts if you do a google search on the subject.
hmmm I see.
I am looking on something more official. The funny part is that from WD My Book Live I can do the Remote Backup (aka safepoint ) to WD My Cloud EX2 but not the other way around.
ElessarGR wrote:
hmmm I see.
I am looking on something more official. The funny part is that from WD My Book Live I can do the Remote Backup (aka safepoint ) to WD My Cloud EX2 but not the other way around.
Thats why I would open a terminal session on the My Book Live and run the rsync command. That way you dont have to wait on WD to modify the firmware and you can rest easy knowing your data is backed up.
