diy home server advice!

[BDunkz]

Hi guys,

Please take the time to read the whole post before responding.

 

Ok so the basic idea is to get 2 servers (nas) to backup to each other while serving 2 different households.

 

before I start please don't recommend a pre-biult nas

 

Now one of these will be for my Aunty. The only thing she wants from her nas is really fast local and external access and maybe to run 1-2 not very intensive vm's. A ssd cache might be nice and Dayly backups on 1 pc. The files will be many small documents and photos.

 

The other server will be mine. Now this one i want to do quite a bit more, I want fast file transfers, local and external access, 1-2 not very intensive vms, local streaming (plex) the ability to host game servers. Dayly backups on 1 pc and one mac and perhaps a ssd cache.

 

Now the real thing is the backup of each nas to the other. I don't think ecc ram is required since raid will be used and each day the servers will back up to each other. But please help explain how/if I can do it

 

Price: it's not how much I want to spend. It's how much I need to spend to get what I want 

 

OS: I'm looking at unraid or free nas I haven't really made a decision yet please help me decide 

 

Noise: it would be good if these servers would be quite, (so descriptive)

 

With both servers I want a ups (they will both be running 24/7) and a lot of upgrade ability.

 

Sorry for making you read this super long post but I'm hoping that you can recommend some parts and software.

All thanks in advance,

 

BDunkz

 

[reniat]

I'm not qualified to comment on most of this, but I will point out that CrashPlan is probably a better backup plan than backing up the servers to eachother. As long as you aren't a business with more than 99 employees, it's only $10 for unlimited cloud backup. If the backups are important (and it sounds like they are if you are trying to get redundancy across both machines) then just get the cloud backup service. It's super cheap and WAY more redundantly protected than you can get with 2 home servers.  

 

Not only that, but that also saves you some drive space since you don't need each server to have the capacity for both of the servers' data.

[BDunkz]

9 minutes ago, reniat said:

I'm not qualified to comment on most of this, but I will point out that CrashPlan is probably a better backup plan than backing up the servers to eachother. As long as you aren't a business with more than 99 employees, it's only $10 for unlimited cloud backup. If the backups are important (and it sounds like they are if you are trying to get redundancy across both machines) then just get the cloud backup service. It's super cheap and WAY more redundantly protected than you can get with 2 home servers.  

 

Not only that, but that also saves you some drive space since you don't need each server to have the capacity for both of the servers' data.

$10 a mounth?

[reniat]

4 minutes ago, BDunkz said:

$10 a mounth?

it might be $20 a month per computer if you want to put both servers on the same plan, since it's $10 per system for crashplan premium. If you both aren't doing it for business purposes, the basic commercial individual plan is like $5 a month for a single system. 

 

https://www.crashplanpro.com/freetrial/#/business

 

I promise I'm not paid by code42, I just really like their backup software for its price lol