Using personal NAS for offsite backup?

[Amit Moryossef]

I have an office with 60gb of data being backed up daily to different drives.

I want to get a My Cloud, put it at home, and back up daily to there.

 

Unfortunately, the upload speed here is 4Mbps (or 500KBps) so backing up the whole thing daily will be a huge pain.

 

I wanted to know if My Cloud or other NAS solutions support differential backups & versions, meaning that it will need to upload everything once, but then it will need ~5GB of difference a day, and also to save several days back.

The My Cloud website has no information about differential backups, or versions, and I thought maybe some of you people might know

[Rohime]

Dont think backup, think Sync.   You need a tool that will sync the file structure with (ideally) block level replication (not file level).   If you can do this with proper protection for deleted files then you should be able to get close to what you want with very low data volumes.    If its not enough, then just run one of your backups off the remote (home?) synchronised NAS.

 

example: https://www.goodsync.com/for-nas-western-digital-mycloud 

 

 

[Amit Moryossef]

So WD Sync (http://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=11395)

 

Thanks!

[Rohime]

Yep.   Just remember to do your very first sync with the devices next to each other, so that the first 60GB load does not need to go over the internet.