Multiple location NAS (2 locations)

[Charlo721]

Hi,

 

This is my first post on this forum. I tried to search online for a personal solution for a NAS to backup all my family's files to a private server with off-site backup. 

My goal is to have a NAS with 2+ drives to backup all family photos and important files and for people to send pictures and files from iOS and Android without extensive technical knowledge. 

I would like it to be both a private full backup of their files (if need be) only accessible by them and also a place to backup photo and videos from trips that anyone from the family could have access to.

 

Basically, I need a physical solution and a software solution to deal with all the data from Android, iOS, Windows, etc. the goal is to have a RAID 1 over network and a RAID 0 over 2 drives. So 2 NAS that are mirrored between my house and my parents' house and both drives in a NAS acting as RAID0 locally for speed.

 

I know some hardware and software can be mixed and matched but I'm looking for the simplest solution in Canada.

 

I know Ugreen's NAS solution aren't available yet in Canada and that's why I'm asking here for solution.

 

For the price limitation, as long as it's within 3k$ CAD I can justify it to my family .

[Blue4130]

9 minutes ago, Charlo721 said:

Hi,

 

This is my first post on this forum. I tried to search online for a personal solution for a NAS to backup all my family's files to a private server with off-site backup. 

My goal is to have a NAS with 2+ drives to backup all family photos and important files and for people to send pictures and files from iOS and Android without extensive technical knowledge. 

I would like it to be both a private full backup of their files (if need be) only accessible by them and also a place to backup photo and videos from trips that anyone from the family could have access to.

 

Basically, I need a physical solution and a software solution to deal with all the data from Android, iOS, Windows, etc. the makes a RAID 1 over network and a RAID 0 in the same "NAS computer"

 

I know some hardware and software can be mixed and matched but I'm looking for the simplest solution in Canada.

 

I know Ugreen's NAS solution aren't available yet in Canada and that's why I'm asking here for solution.

 

For the price limitation, as long as it's within 3k$ CAD I can justify it to my family .

If you want easy, synology. It's expensive, but the software is simple.

[mariushm]

You'll have problems with the computers not have static IPs, being behind NAT etc etc.

 

May be easier to just rent a dedicated server for something like $40-50 a month, and buy a domain for $15 a year, and set up a basic file hosting script and or a image gallery script to upload image albums to.

 

There's open source "my own cloud" scripts you can set up with a few commands. Your folks will probably find it easier to just go to a website and tap on the "upload files" button after logging in

 

Being your own dedicated server, there's also FTP you can use to upload files directly to a folder on your server.. .and potentially you could map a folder in windows explorer through iscsi or something.

you could use rsync or something like that to do backups of computers to the dedicated server

 

Then you could build a couple NAS systems with a refurbished atom / equivalent new intel stuff or some ryzen from amd and 2-4 hard drives and do daily or weekly export of the stuff on the dedicated server for backup.. That's basically ~$100  plus cost of drives per NAS.

 

If you can get kimsufi (they're not accepting orders from some countries) you can rent dedicated server with 4 x 2 TB drives for as little as 17 eur a month : https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/?display=list&range=kimsufi

I don't think they'll set them up for you in a raid or anything fancy, but  it shouldn't matter.

 

Leaseweb has a dedicated server in Canada available with 2 x  1 TB drives for ~ 33 usd a month (46 cad), +a few percent if you rent with monthly payment instead of yearly :  https://www.leaseweb.com/en/configure/vc/product/entityKey/DEDSER02_NEW_ORDER_STANDARD_R210_II-2LFF-E31230V2/1702

 

 

[johnt]

I know this isn’t what you want to do, but look into cloud storage from Apple and Google. A $3k CAD budget is ridiculous to avoid cloud storage, plus you have to be the manager of these devices across two sites. The cloud services are integrated into the phone and work seamlessly. Typically you can do family sharing with most of the cloud plans so you don’t have to pay for storage for every person… you just purchase a large amount and share it with family members. At $3k budget, you are talking about 12 years of cloud storage at the current rates. That’s nuts dude. No hard drive is going to last that long, much less four of them. And nobody has mentioned that you do not use RAID0 when the information matters and that’s how you want to configure it at each site. 

 

I think you would be a lot safer if you invested in a RAID5 configuration at each site instead. In fact, one RAID5 configuration anywhere is better than two RAID0 configurations.

 

I think this would be a really fun project and a huge learning experience. Although there is no such as a single sync. Either everybody who uses this will have to sync their photos twice, once to each site, or have a dedicated NAS and then the NASes communicate to build back ups for the other NAS. You will have to open ports and worry about getting hacked all day and night. But the cloud storage is a better financial decision especially for how well it works. You can easily find a software between IOS and Android to let you share albums and whatnot if that is a goal.

 

Just an opinion… totally not worth it.