[TriLUG] Slightly Off Topic - personal NAS or Cloud Service?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015, Howard Boyd wrote:

> 1)      Backup Video files!!!!
>
> 2)      Multi-client us (windows, linux, and mac compatible)
>
> 3)      Remote connectivity - being able to access the home based NAS while away at the office or on vacation

you've got a couple of answers at various levels of complexity. I am low tech, 
so keeping an eye on everything is not as sophisticated as Alan's setup.

I have two 2-bay external USB enclosures on one of my boxes, currently upgrading 
to 4TB disks. I just rsync everything to them.

I used to have multiclient. Anytime a machine came on the net, I `cp -auv` from 
it using smbmount. Those machines have all left the house now.

If you want remote connectivity, use OpenVPN. It gets you to everything at home, 
not just the NAS.

Joe

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