Hi,

 

I currently have a WHS in my home with 9tb, I want to turn that into an unraid solution in the home, and also want to place a similar system at my brothers web hosting company so I could back up over the internet into my own offsite storage pool.  I have zero FREEBSD/Linux experience, and am wondering if someone who help me understand what I would need to do to place that unraid system up on the internet so I could access it.  I specifically am interested in how I'd secure it as it would be exposed with a direct ip address. Outside of windows share security, are there other things to be concerned with?  Would you recommend I put it behind a firewall, and create some kind of tunnel like hamachi?  Thanks for your suggestions!

Use Crashplan. There are install instructions in the Applications forum. Good luck on the security.

I specifically am interested in how I'd secure it as it would be exposed with a direct ip address. Outside of windows share security, are there other things to be concerned with?  Would you recommend I put it behind a firewall, and create some kind of tunnel like hamachi?  Thanks for your suggestions!

unRAID is not secure at all... in any way... if you value your files, do NOT allow direct connections to its files from the internet.

 

The only safe way is through a VPN.

 

Joe L.

I specifically am interested in how I'd secure it as it would be exposed with a direct ip address. Outside of windows share security, are there other things to be concerned with?  Would you recommend I put it behind a firewall, and create some kind of tunnel like hamachi?  Thanks for your suggestions!

unRAID is not secure at all... in any way... if you value your files, do NOT allow direct connections to its files from the internet.

 

The only safe way is through a VPN.

 

Joe L.

What he said

Thanks! for the feedback..

 

Yea after posting I did a bit of reading and realized unraid is not secure. So I will place it behind a firewall and use a vpn.

Looks like hamachi is what others use?  Any advice on implementing vpn on unraid?

 

Thanks

personally..

 

I would consider putting ESXi on the server.

 

then add 2 or 3 guests:

1 a secure vpn. (Your way in)

2 add a NIX or Windows guest (you gain a remote console, with possibly FTP or Web servers for access)

3 the storage server (unRAID). if possible, with a spare drive in the box for a spare in case you have a failure.

 

I would also consider a raid solution (hardware or ZFS) since you usually don't pay for electricity in a data center co-loc.

 

the reason I would go this route, 1 security, 2 you have a second OS/terminal in case unRAID (or whatever storage server you use)  becomes unresponsive and needs a push. 3 the storage server hidden away behind the layers with no straight web access for the kiddies to pound on.

 

 

I am not saying this is the ideal way.. this is what i have been considering myself..

my problem is i would be limited to 1U. not a lot of storage options in 1U

if you dont go this route.. as much as you are unfamiliar with nix... it would be a good all in one solution.