Hello Everyone,

 

Moving my first steps with Unraid and still adjusting to the differences between the windows, QNAP and Sinology differences. Please be patient with me and if this issue was already discussed, please point me in the right direction as I could not find the post.

 

I've done some research online as well as reading the manual, but I'm not sure which way is the easiest and the best to achieve the below.

 

My new Unraid server will replace an old QNAP server (running QOS) that will go and spend the rest of its days in sunny southern Italy (how lucky!), The Unraid and QNAP servers will be in 2 different geographical locations.

 

I would like to turn the QNAP into a backup server, syncing the data residing on the Unraid one.

 

My home network is segmented with VLANS. I specifically have one (VLAN 99) where a RPI4 client sits, this connects via VPN (WG) to another RPI4 (Server running also WG) in Italy, creating some sort of Site2Site VPN.

 

With the QNAP, to see shares in Italy, all I have to do is to configure the port on VLAN99, set the DNS to point to the client RPI WireGuard client and I can ping the local IPs Italy. The other eth ports are set on my home VLAN.

 

What I was trying to do today to prove this can be done, was to take one of the 4 ports on Unraid out of the bond0, connect it to VLAN99 and see if I could ping an IP on the local network in Italy. It did not work. At this point, I was trying to open using Unassigned Devices a test share folder on a windows PC.

 

I then tried to setup a VPN connection via Network Services, I was not able to run it . While troubleshooting, I stopped as I started to question if:

 

a. VPN is the best option.

b. I should persevere in getting the network access setup right (and ask help from the community as I don't know where to start from)

c. None of the above and maybe there's a better way.

 

Ideally I would like the server to sit across 2 networks (local and the other abroad) but also shield it from the internet as much as possible to protect the data. I don't want Unraid to advertise any services online.

 

Hope the above makes sense. Obviously happy to provide more details.

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who can spare few minutes to help.

 

Thanks

 

 

Tailscale plugin may do what you need:

 

 

Thanks also for your help Jorge, will have a look and let you know. 

On 10/3/2024 at 8:19 AM, JorgeB said:

Tailscale plugin may do what you need:

 

 

Thanks for the suggestion, this is surely an interesting solution I will implement in a different way. 

 

The thing is that I already have a network setup and a site 2 site connection between the 2 locations. What I need help with is the network setup so that the Unraid server sees the other VLAN and what is over in the other location.

 

Thanks