I am using readynas 102 with two 2 TB drives. I keep all personal photos and videos as home archive. Data is relatively safe as disk works in RAID mode. But what If I get this disk stolen, or fire comes or something like this happens?... Till now I tried to sync with cloud but now its too much data and I thought about buying some other NAS (maybe not so safe and not working in RAID but cheaper) and leave it at work for example.. The question is how to synchronize that or backup often via internet , without need to remember about that. If anyone decides to respond please consider precise answer as Im material scientist not IT person so I would need to be told step by step , otherwise I will not understand. I considered buying WD persobnal cloud.. will it work with my NETGEAR? Thank you ! Marek
Re: Backing up readynas with other NAS via internet
One of the more secure ways to do that, and the way I am doing it, is using a VPN to connect the two NASes as if they were on the same network. I personally use ZeroTier, which you can find here: NAStools zerotierone releases. It does require that you create a free account on the ZeroTier web site that serves as a locator system to connect the devices, but the data does not go through them. Once each has a ZeroTier address in the same ZeroTier network, you just use that address in the onboard backup system. Google ZeroTier for more info.
But I'm not going to walk you through it. It is important that you at least understand the fundamentals, which you will not get from a playbook.
The WD Personal Cloud is nothing but another NAS. If you have difficulty seting up a backup between two NASes of the same brand, I don't think you want to complicate it with a second brand.
Re: Backing up readynas with other NAS via internet
Thank you very much for answer. Most important info is that it can be done.. I think I will need to contact som IT people at work to have it configured! Thank you
Re: Backing up readynas with other NAS via internet
If you buy another NAS, you can use backup to transfer and backup data over the network. You can choose the entire data volume, and then select the Rsync protocol, so that the speed of transmission can be faster!
BTW , the source is RN102, the destination is another NAS, but overall, RN102's performance is slightly worse, it takes a long time to do volume backups.
Re: Backing up readynas with other NAS via internet
The backup process itself is rather straight forward. Setting up a VPN or rsync over SSH, so it can be done securely to a remote location, not so much. Especially not so much if there is a firewall on one end (as there likely is at work). So, yes, getting one of the IT folks involved is a good plan.
Unless you get a seriously underpowered NAS for the remote system, like an old NV+ or Duo, you are probably best off pulling from the backup system instead of pushing from the 102 to the backup. That lets you have the remote system only power on to do the backups, and uses less CPU of the local system in case you are using it concurrently with the backup. A disadvantage, though, is no local backup log.
I use "pull" backups myself. A second disadvantage is that "push" backup begins with a snapshot - keeping the backup coherent - but the "pull" backup doesn't. If the backups are run off-hours, that is not a big concern.
