Title: I&#x27;ve been looking at the Western Digital My Passport SSD Wireless devices with the idea of setting this up for a client for local server backup.<p>I already have the client setup for backup to remote storage (rsync.net) but for redundancy and speedier access in the case of an emergency I would like them to have access to a local backup.  However, through prior experience, I&#x27;ve learned that if any effort is required then eventually good practice stops.<p>So my thought is to have a small box that the user takes home (to avoid loss due to fire or other catastrophe at the office) and then at least once a week brings in to the office for the day and then takes home again.  The &#x27;box&#x27; would automatically connect to the local wireless network and would be able to use something like rsync and would have access to the server necessary to make a full backup hopefully before the user leaves for the day. I&#x27;m thinking SSD is a better choice than a spinning disk for reliability while being carried around regularly.<p>A little research on the Western Digital wireless storage devices suggests linux is running underneath and that it is possible to enable SSH, login as root, and start hacking.<p>I guess my question is has anyone here actually done that and can you provide any additional details?  As far as I can tell this is not something that is officially supported by Western Digital.<p>Alternatively is anyone aware of a similar device (mostly closed box, rechargable internal battery, wireless accessible) that either has internal SSD storage or into which an SD card can be installed that also has a *nix filesystem underneath?<p>Access to a solid ZFS implementation would be a plus.
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