Saturday 31 January 2009

Further joy with Buffalo Linkstation

After running this for a couple of years I decided that I wanted to get rsync running to take incremental backups of my Windows desktop. The follow is what I had to do:
  • Install the latest version of OpenLink firmware to stop the NAS rebooting every 5min (/usr/local/sbin/kernel26.sh)
  • Install avr_evtd
  • Setup SSH using dropbear
  • Upgrade procps to 3.2.7 to fix issues with Unknown HZ value errors
  • Install vim 7.2
  • Change /etc/localtime to point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT
As previously nas-central.org is an excellent resource for this.
I can now connect via SSH as my own user, and via Telnet as root if required