Additional WD MyBook II Questions

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 08/25/2009 10:10 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Our replacement MyBook II is scheduled to arrive today, and I've done m=
y
> homework, so I won't brick the device again.
>
> The intent is to use the MyBook II (4TB physical - TB Raid1)  strictly
> as a backup device. We currently run a nightly backup of our NFS server=

> to another system. The way I would envision us to use the MyBook II is
> to (1) disable MioNet (which I have read is a hog). Setting up SSH is
> well documented. I would then import rsync Version 3 or better both on
> the MyBook II and on the NFS server. Then install rsnapshot, and take
> several snapshots during the day, and have our NY server grab the
> rsnapshot daily late after my workaholic coworker leaves.
>
> An alternative might be to NFS export MyBook to the NFS server, and run=

> rsnapshot locally on the NFS server. I don't particularly like doing it=

> this way, but it is workable.
>  =20
One of the first things I did was to check my firmware. I found that I
was unable to do this through our VPN, so I moved the MyBook to a port
outside of our firewall, and things worked, but I was unable to install
Martin Hinner's patch or an alternate patch. Martin Hinner's patch is:
http://<IP-OF-YOUR-MYBOOK>/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=3Dmartin.hin=
ner.info/mybook/firmware.php

I get a 404 Error, not found.

On further investigation, Martin Hinner's patch is no longer necessary
as you can enable ssh directly from the web interface and log in
directly as root. Another note is that the su(1) command is no longer
included in busybox, so if you want to create local users and become
root, you'll need to install the sudo command from optware.



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