I have three 4TB WD MyClouds. I wanted to tweak them to use my CrashPlan account to back themselves up and the first step is to get SSH access which I did.
For some reason, I thought updating the software would be a good idea so after a few “sudo apt-get update”, “sudo apt-get upgrade” and “sudo apt-get autoremove” commands, one of them no longer knows the 'sudo" command, another gives me dependicies errors and the third updates but only a few files at a time and with lots of warning messages.
Amazingly, the drives are still accessible over my network and I can copy files on and off them but I’m assuming that once they have to restart, I will lose all access.
Is there a way to recover from my updating or should I move all the files off and do a factory reset?
Yes, the MyCloud is based on Debian Wheezy, but it’s built with a non-standard , 64k page size, so you can’t simply update or install from the usual repositories.
Be thankful you didn’t brick the thing…
I would probably re-install the WD build. Use SectorGZ’s trick to fool it into overwriting with an ‘older’ (I.e. not newer) version, described here:
