College Backup Server/NAS help

[Lord Bussey]

Hey everyone,

I am going to college pretty soon and I heard of a family member creating a storage server that would automatically backup all of the computers that were connected, even if they were in a different state, as long as they were online. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good way to setup a backup server like this, where I can be down state at college and have my backup server at home making a backup of the documents I have on my computer. I would like to do this as cheaply as possible. I do not have a server up and running yet but that is to come soon I just want to get some ideas of the easiest way to have an automatic backup server for school. 

Thanks everyone.

[beavo451]

Easiest thing and pretty cheap is to use a cloud backup service like Carbonite. 

[Pixel5]

either way use a cloud storage service or if you want to keep it private i would suggest as NAS like from Synology.

 

Keep in mind the NAS only offers the storage space /platform to store files on, the files are still coming from your own computer and there will need to be some kind of scheduled backup on that machine

[mealto]

Look into Crashplan. They offer a free app can do remote backups. It's only paid once you start using their online storage. Crashplan has a feature where you can backup to a remote computer as long as it has Crashplan on it as well.