First post and absolute newbie when it comes to software raid/nas OS. Also, English is not my native language, ergo forgive the typos and grammar.

 

What I have now is a QNAP NAS at home where all our family stuff is on. The NAS gets backupped every night to an offsite QNAP NAS which resides in my office. Was quite easy so setup since I used the QNAP rsync for it. Of course there is also an offline backup of the NAS at home, ergo 3-2-1 strategy is existent.

 

Now since I'm a bit of a geek since 1992 I was planning to build an unraid server for not only my family at home but also my other family members which are scattered across the world.

 

There are two scenarios I'm dreaming off:

1.

Every family member, no matter where, gets an QNAP NAS for central storage

Every NAS makes a backup to the unraid server which resides in my office

2.

The unraid server resides in my home

Every family member can access my unraid server and my photos/videos/etc

unraid servers makes a backup to the QNAP NAS in my office on a daily basis

 

Are those scenarios feasible and if so, how?

Still got to put the hardware together but I as far as I know this will be a no brainer (older PC, sufficient but good RAM, enough/good HDD and SSD for cache-pool, parity and array)

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited May 9, 20179 yr by helmsp

Hello and welcome.

 

unRAID also supports rsync, so option 1 should work assuming you can open a secure channel (Open-VPN?) from each location to your office.  Option 2 is a little more complex, I assume that multiple devices are involved.  Getting them all talking to your server in real time could involve Plex Pass, VPN, etc - depending on the device and type of media, etc.  Implied within these statements is the notion that exposing unRAID directly on the internet is a bad idea.  VPN is Ok, opening certain ports with a known secure listener is Ok, but you don't want to just plunk it out there.  The backup part of option 2 should be straightforward.