Home Network Attached Storage

[highangle]

Take a look at the Transporter which is like a private version of Dropbox. http://filetransporterstore.com/coll.../transporter-1 Then purchase the drive you want to add to it. It will sync the files and allow you to do the backup as well as share the files inside and outside your home network.

How does that work? It looks like it mirrors whatever is written on it to their cloud. I hope it compresses and encrypts my data before it sends it across the internet ...

[shroom]

non-nerds tryna be nerd is my shit

[RShea]

How does that work? It looks like it mirrors whatever is written on it to their cloud. I hope it compresses and encrypts my data before it sends it across the internet ...

It is all private- no cloud storage mirror. It mirrors whatever you tell it to off the connected computers- think Dropbox like features on your own network with your own storage drive you supply. Still able to connect to it over the internet- so the device could be placed off site if you really wanted and have .

[Todds]

Does anyone have any experience with Crashplan? Unlimited backup is $5/month for an individual user. Backup to cloud and local drive. $12.50/month for a family. I'm considering this and a local USB drive instead of NAS.

[highangle]

It is all private- no cloud storage mirror. It mirrors whatever you tell it to off the connected computers- think Dropbox like features on your own network with your own storage drive you supply. Still able to connect to it over the internet- so the device could be placed off site if you really wanted and have .

"Off site"...ahh. Thnx.

While it's easy enough to edit fstab in OSX or Linux, or map it to automount in Windows, I just use bookmarks on my clients to connect to Windows shares on the NAS...Like file managers and media players. Automated stuff like syslogs and backups pass their own credentials to get in from the LAN into their own folders.


If I needed a lot of remote access/sharing to certain folders, I mount them on a cloud, and work from that. ie Say I was recording my band's festival sets. I'd back my shit up to the cloud first, if possible, rather than log in remotely to my NAS's FTP or HTTP server, which would be like putting a seacock between my LAN and the internet. shroom loves the seacock.




http://www.napp-it.org/index_en.html
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272

[highangle]

Does anyone have any experience with Crashplan? Unlimited backup is $5/month for an individual user. Backup to cloud and local drive. $12.50/month for a family. I'm considering this and a local USB drive instead of NAS.

Enthusiasts seem to like Crashplan, so it seems one of the better clouds. How good is your internet connection? Mine's 18/3, and sucks for uploading big files. I have to do that late at night because filling up the up pipe will preclude anything else through my cheezy cable connection.
But if you live somewhere civilized, it may work well for you. My biggest gripe working with clouds in general is that they're about single file manipulation. IOW, it's more of a PITA to copy whole folders than it should be. Also, if you have sensitive info, you want to have your own encryption scheme so you're not uploading financial records and goat porn, but encrypted files that the cloud provider can't read.
A cloud plan is just like renting a storage unit - you have to keep paying as you go, and you have to always be aware that you may one day do business elsewhere, and have to move all your shit. But it's great to have when you need it.

[Todds]

Enthusiasts seem to like Crashplan, so it seems one of the better clouds. How good is your internet connection? Mine's 18/3, and sucks for uploading big files. I have to do that late at night because filling up the up pipe will preclude anything else through my cheezy cable connection.
But if you live somewhere civilized, it may work well for you. My biggest gripe working with clouds in general is that they're about single file manipulation. IOW, it's more of a PITA to copy whole folders than it should be. Also, if you have sensitive info, you want to have your own encryption scheme so you're not uploading financial records and goat porn, but encrypted files that the cloud provider can't read.
A cloud plan is just like renting a storage unit - you have to keep paying as you go, and you have to always be aware that you may one day do business elsewhere, and have to move all your shit. But it's great to have when you need it.

Thanks. I hear what you are saying about the encryption and will need to add that to my strategy if I use the cloud. Any opinions on good encryption software?

I have about 2TB of stuff to backup. I've been keeping multiple sets of backups on USB drives stored at home and at work. The cloud sounds interesting because it gives me a remote place to store the backup and saves me from moving drives around. Keeping one backup at home and one on the cloud seems like an easier plan.

[RShea]

"Off site"...ahh. Thnx.

While it's easy enough to edit fstab in OSX or Linux, or map it to automount in Windows, I just use bookmarks on my clients to connect to Windows shares on the NAS...Like file managers and media players. Automated stuff like syslogs and backups pass their own credentials to get in from the LAN into their own folders.


If I needed a lot of remote access/sharing to certain folders, I mount them on a cloud, and work from that. ie Say I was recording my band's festival sets. I'd back my shit up to the cloud first, if possible, rather than log in remotely to my NAS's FTP or HTTP server, which would be like putting a seacock between my LAN and the internet. shroom loves the seacock.




http://www.napp-it.org/index_en.html
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272

Also since it is your device and could be placed at your house, there is nothing stopping you from having more than 1 storage drive and rotating them for a backup strategy. IE: stick a drive in it, set up the folders and files you want to sync and have available. Once completely synced, pull that drive off, take it off site, then stick a 2nd hard drive in the unit and have it start syncing all over again. It is local network speeds, not internet cloud. But once it is synced and you are out with say your phone or a laptop and need a file or folder, it can be accessed similar to Dropbox cloud account.

[shroom]

I'd back my shit up to the cloud first, if possible, rather than log in remotely to my NAS's FTP or HTTP server, which would be like putting a seacock between my LAN and the internet. shroom loves the seacock.

you sneaky es oh bee

[highangle]

Thanks. I hear what you are saying about the encryption and will need to add that to my strategy if I use the cloud. Any opinions on good encryption software?

I have about 2TB of stuff to backup. I've been keeping multiple sets of backups on USB drives stored at home and at work. The cloud sounds interesting because it gives me a remote place to store the backup and saves me from moving drives around. Keeping one backup at home and one on the cloud seems like an easier plan.

That's how you do it. If your stuff's important or expensive, you back it up on- and off-site, so it would take an incredible succession of 3 calamities in a small time window for you to be well and truly fuckt.

Free encryption solutions will vary by OS, and every OS has an encryption thingy already built in. "Who gets the keys?" is important. You have to back them up too... Truecrypt, Cloudfogger, Boxcryptor seem to work well as aftermarket solutions. PGP is free for Linux and OSX. I use lofiadm to change files into encrypted block devices, then lock them with a passphrase.

Here's how hard it is on a Solaris-based NAS:

# lofiadm -c aes-256-cbc -a /home/highangle/secretshit_1
  Enter passphrase: 
  Re-enter passphrase:
/dev/lofi/1

Then I just sync that entire /lofi/1 device to the cloud. Ain't no casual sysadmin or FBI mofo gonna figure that shit out any time soon. They're gonna have to beat me with a $7 wrench to get my lolcatz.

[johnnyg82]

I've got a Synology setup at home that is great.