Hey everyone,
First off, i apologize if this question isn't suited to this forum but i have been searching around and really have no idea where to ask about this.
The conundrum is this. I have a file server thats about 10TB and growing, filled with... pretty much everything over the last few years... music, videos, whatever. Its on a windows home server 2011, with a drobo pro connected via iSCSI... i'm starting to consider what i might be losing if i lost a couple hard drives (i have it in single disk redundancy - essentially drobo version of RAID 5). What my friend and i thought is that it would be nice if there was someway to do a remote backup of this to a system and each other's house. Now we've been trying to come up with the best way to do this but i haven't really been able to come up with any specific products that might be able to do the trick.
We did stumble on something called "Transporter", which would have done the trick if it wasn't an appliance that would only sync files that are on its local storage. (http://filetransporterstore.com/)
What we want is pretty simple, to use our existing hardware, and get an appliance or software solution that will let us sync our two systems in a reliable and relatively secure manner. If its an appliance then i would like it to use some kind of vpn like encryption... If its a software solution then we can get a cheap VPN appliance for that purpose.
I considered that something like this would be great with DFS, but getting a windows server (2003 or 2008) seems a bit excessive. I believe it also means we would have to setup a domain between our 2 locations, but i'm not really an expert in DFS. My buddy suggested just doing a cron job of rsync over NFS, over a VPN but that just seems so... ghetto. 😛
Has anyone ever heard or seen (or even done) a solution to an issue like this. Obviously this is something that is pretty normal for enterprise level networks, but i've never seen or heard of anything for personal use.
We did consider the regular cloud solutions but the amount of space we would need make that not very feasible.
Also, if i really shouldn't be in this forum with this question, please let me know.
First off, i apologize if this question isn't suited to this forum but i have been searching around and really have no idea where to ask about this.
The conundrum is this. I have a file server thats about 10TB and growing, filled with... pretty much everything over the last few years... music, videos, whatever. Its on a windows home server 2011, with a drobo pro connected via iSCSI... i'm starting to consider what i might be losing if i lost a couple hard drives (i have it in single disk redundancy - essentially drobo version of RAID 5). What my friend and i thought is that it would be nice if there was someway to do a remote backup of this to a system and each other's house. Now we've been trying to come up with the best way to do this but i haven't really been able to come up with any specific products that might be able to do the trick.
We did stumble on something called "Transporter", which would have done the trick if it wasn't an appliance that would only sync files that are on its local storage. (http://filetransporterstore.com/)
What we want is pretty simple, to use our existing hardware, and get an appliance or software solution that will let us sync our two systems in a reliable and relatively secure manner. If its an appliance then i would like it to use some kind of vpn like encryption... If its a software solution then we can get a cheap VPN appliance for that purpose.
I considered that something like this would be great with DFS, but getting a windows server (2003 or 2008) seems a bit excessive. I believe it also means we would have to setup a domain between our 2 locations, but i'm not really an expert in DFS. My buddy suggested just doing a cron job of rsync over NFS, over a VPN but that just seems so... ghetto. 😛
Has anyone ever heard or seen (or even done) a solution to an issue like this. Obviously this is something that is pretty normal for enterprise level networks, but i've never seen or heard of anything for personal use.
We did consider the regular cloud solutions but the amount of space we would need make that not very feasible.
Also, if i really shouldn't be in this forum with this question, please let me know.
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