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sneeble
Jun 18, 2018Aspirant
Rsync over SSH causing unresponsive NAS
I have a network with many ReadyNAS devices at each of multiple sites. Most of them are ReadyNAS 312's, but there is one older ReadyNAS 102.
The RN312's maintain a duplicate of each others crit...
sneeble
Jun 18, 2018Aspirant
The failing backup jobs are running on the RN102.
Running SSH over a VPN would be just plain stupid. That would be running encryption over encryption which would result in an exceptionally large amount of processing overhead on and already weakly powered CPU and performance degredation because you cant effectively encrypt something that is already encrypted.
StephenB
Jun 18, 2018Guru - Experienced User
sneeble wrote:
Running SSH over a VPN would be just plain stupid.
I was thinking you could try logging in with ssh when it goes non-responsive, and use the linux CLI to see what is going on with the NAS.
You could of course just use port forwarding, but that exposes you to brute-force password attacks. So I suggested a VPN to eliminate that possible threat..
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