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Media · 2015-03-22, 01:47

Hello All... I'm looking for advice.

For awhile now, my media collection has grown and grown. (I'm sure many of you have this problem as well!)

I ended up buying a drobo b800fs and packing it with drives, which gives me some peace of mind. That said, if that piece of hardware went down. I'd have a bad day. Options like Amazon or Google hosting are out, since I have terabybes of data, and I don't really feel comfortable uploading my data to someone else's servers.

Here is my situation:
My main residence is in Wisconsin (where the drobo is), and I have another place down in Florida.

I'd like to put in a second storage solution down in FL, (likely another drobo or synology) and I'd like to have them sync somehow so that I'm protected in case of a disaster. I want it to be a two way sync, so that if I add something in FL it is copied to WI, and vice versa.

What solutions do you use? Please let me know if you have any ideas!

nickr · 2015-03-22, 01:50

Vpn plus resyncing.

mcaron1234 · 2015-03-22, 19:27

Have you considered a service like crashplan? It's pretty affordable and has unlimited online backup. They also allow you to use their software to backup to another computer for free.

nickr · 2015-03-22, 23:56

Sorry my android keyboard screwed up. I meant rsync.

shabuboy · 2015-03-23, 04:33

+1 rsync, however, as far as I know rsync runs over SSH, do not see an advantage of running it over VPN, but both are possible

You can even set a cron job to run rsync at 3am, use x amount of bandwidth, etc, etc.

nickr · 2015-03-23, 05:33

Yes as long as you don't mind up opening up ssh to the internet. Having been bitten by a root exploit once, I haven't been brave enough to do it again. If you do it with keys instead of hackable passwords it is a lot safer.

Media · 2015-03-23, 07:45

Thank you all who responded. I'm going to take a closer look into rsync.

I would want to make sure that security is tight. Nickr, is there a specific tool that you recommend for a VPN? I'm really good at home PC builds, but when it comes to networking, I'm at a bit of a loss.

Thanks

nickr · 2015-03-23, 07:52

Openvpn has pretty good rep.

shabuboy · 2015-03-24, 06:26

I do have mine open to the Internet, however, I am using a very obscure port # on the WAN side and redirecting to 22-SSH on the LAN.
I also have a specific user setup for remote access, which does not have access either remote or locally to sensitive data. In a few words, it only has access to media files. Even root does not have remote access via ssh, I have to do "su".

nickr · 2015-03-24, 07:41

Obfusation is not security. Port scanning will eventually find your ssh server.

But your other security measures do seem sound.

buzzqw · 2015-03-24, 08:25

when using SSH you should modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set
- PermitRootLogin no

never ever allow root on ssh!

and, btw, use private key autentication method. A lot more secure

BHH