File this one under “Give 'em a SMACK!”
(Subcategory: We’ve been making this WAY too hard. . . .)
A bit of research has discovered two things:
First:
There is a very, very, useful utility called WinSCP that will allow you to securely move files from - and to - your My Cloud device using your existing SSH credentials.
Having used this utility to poke around and download a few files, I discovered a hidden gem.
Second:
The My Cloud, with the 2.n firmware, has a cleverly hidden command named, (Doh!) “halt”.
This command, (which is a binary), when run from the SSH command-line does a full, formal, and complete shutdown of the device, including un-mounting all the filesystems in a sane manner.
Strangely enough, this appears to be totally un-documented - that is until right now.
So, go fire up those SSH clients and have fun shutting down your My Cloud boxes!
Jim “JR”
