I have a relative just a few streets over who also has Verizon Fios, nice and speedy, as I do.  I would love to put an unraid box in their home and have my box sync to it.  My own offsite backups as it were.  Of course to have a box in a relatives home, I need to offer them to use it too.  So we need two way synch.  My house is their offsite backup, their house Is my back up.  Sounds like RSynch could just about do it, someway somehow.  But I really need a nice GUI to help me set this up.  Are there security concerns about syncing over the internet?  Would a GUI/Wizard like this be too hard to make?

 

I keep seeing references to unraid not being a backup solution, and a feature like this would go a loooong way.

 

Just take some time to read up on rsync and use cron to make it reoccur automatically every day.

 

Better spend the time to read and learn instead of some wizard that does not do exactly what you want.

 

Using ssh with password less keys should keep you safe. But whitelisting ip addresses using hosts.allow should give you that extra something if you are paranoid

 

I would recommend trying one folder before you sync and maybe trash some stuff.

I’m doing this now with a friend across town using the Crashplan docker container. We each seeded a HD and then swapped them and reconnected the backup over the internet. This is using the free version of Crashplan and is working great so far. We mount the Crashplan disk outside the array so we are not bound by any disk limitations from the other user.

Best way (though maybe not the easiest) to accomplish this will include an encrypted connection. You should set up a point-to-point VPN between your houses. Maybe even Hamachi could work? DD-WRT could be a VPN endpoint, or also pfSense.

 

Also, I presume that your data is now viewable by your relative? I wonder if there is a way to encrypt and password-protect the data so that the person on the other end could never view any of the data.

bittorrent sync plug in would work here, i think.  i ran it for a while just to see if it would work.  it did. (but i dont use it any more)