I have a My Cloud. I want to copy a drive on a computer at work to the My Cloud at home. I want to find a software that will do this automaticly at night or at a time when I am not using either. Any suggestions?
As long you use that disk in your My Cloud as a single drive (not part of a RAID volume for example) and your computer is able to read and write to an EXT4 type filesystem then it could work.
this is a NAS drive you don’t write directly to the drive so the filesystems does not matter.
I do not know of an automatic way.
you can use the wdmycould desktop app at work and manually do it which is probably the more reliably way for remote access
you could also map the mycloud drive to your work computer through the wdtogo site. Have have had problems copying large files 250MB+ but any app that can write to a mapped drive should work
As long you use that disk in your My Cloud as a single drive …] and your computer is able to read and write to an EXT4 type filesystem then it could work
I think you have misunderstood the question…
The OP wants to leave his MyCloud at home, unmolested, intact, working.
He wants to use an automatic backup facility at his remote location (work), that will backup a remote machine to his MyCloud at home.
He doesn’t want to have to remove the disk from his MyCloud, or his remote PC…
I’m afraid I don’t know of such a backup utility, since I don’t use remote access.
Yes filesystems does matter as the OP wants to write to the disk in his PC at work.
There are drivers available on Windows to use an ext4 filesystem so maybe that will do it.
No, I’m pretty sure you have misunderstood the question; see my first reply.
Hopefully, the OP will clarify…
peterdejong wrote:
As long you use that disk in your My Cloud as a single drive (not part of a RAID volume for example) and your computer is able to read and write to an EXT4 type filesystem then it could work.
The OP was asking how to copy content from a PC at their work to their My Cloud at home using software that will operate at night or at a time when they are not using their PC. It doesn’t appear that the OP wanted to remove the hard drive from the WD My Cloud or from their work PC, rather was seeking a way to have the backup performed across the Internet.
For the OP you don’t want to manually back up the PC using the WD My Cloud Desktop app as mentioned above, you might be able to go the WD2Go route if you have configured your WD My Cloud for remote access, and map the WD My Cloud to the work PC you want to backup, then instruct the backup program to use that shared mapped drive. Some backup programs may not be able to backup to network or shared drives. You may be able to manually configure the WD My Cloud included Smartware backup software to backup to a network mapped drive. The one downside to manually mapping the network drive via the WD2Go method is the connection between your work PC and your home WD My Cloud could be broken at any time. Also note that the backup speed and amount of time required to backup the content will be determined by the broadband speed both at work and at home and the size of the content to be backed up.
One further word of caution about backing up your work PC to an offsite personal location. You may be violating company or corporate IT and computer network policy by doing so which could lead to job termination or being censured (or worse). Always check with your employer first before backing up a company PC especially when located on company property.
