Off site storage

[Bijmij1]

Hey guys, I have been looking for half an hour on the forums, but I can't find any answers.

Is it possible to use unRAID to set up an off site backup storage? 

If so, is there any information on how to. Because I am starting to give up all hope.

 

Thanks

[knightslugger]

Yes it is possible. there should be DOZENS of Youtube videos on how to do this. better still, maybe check unRAID's users guide.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Where do you want to backup do. You could easily make a cron job with something like rclone. 

 

Edit cron job

[jared404]

Looks like this may be helpful, I keep seeing crashplan listed everywhere

 

[AnonymousGuy]

9 minutes ago, crashahotrod said:

Looks like this may be helpful, I keep seeing crashplan listed everywhere

 

Crashplan is one of few that gives unlimited storage.  Google Drive Enterprise also does.

[KuJoe]

CrashPlan was nice, but their network speeds are horrible. I was barely able to get 15Mbps on my dedicated 1Gbps connection and restoring files was very time consuming. Another bad thing was if you had a lot of data stored (over 100GB), your files would be inaccessible for 1-2 days a month during "maintenance" but you wouldn't know it unless you tried doing a restore (it would queue up for up to 48 hours until they were done on their end and you'd receive no message on your end).

 

I tested out hubiC for a few months but the network speed is almost as bad (~5-20Mbps depending on the alignment of the planets or something) and they made it really hard for me to pay them. Their forums were plagued with warnings from current users also so I jumped ship before they sorted out the billing issue.

 

Right now I'm using Amazon Drive and Google Drive, both are cheap options depending on the amount of data you have. I don't care about privacy since I encrypt my backups before I transfer them so Google and Amazon don't even know the folder or file names.

[KuJoe]

Oh, and how much storage do you need? I have servers with Kimsufi (OVH) and Online.net for less than $10/month with a lot of hard drive space each that I use for off-site backups (rsync). Speeds are good and I control the servers which helps me sleep good at night.

[Bijmij1]

Well, we have an old pc here that can support up to 6 drives, so I was thinking to transform that one into a nas, which I wanted to share with my girlfriend, who doesn't yet live with me.