Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution
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There will probably be several pools. Each household will get a private pool. Then there will be a shared pool for stuff like family photos. Finally I'll have the second drive as my own pool. So there will be 4-5 pools on the small drive.
Each NAS will be identical so all data is mirrored to each one. That way if a NAS dies or something worse happens like a house burning down, we won't lose any files.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A mirror isn't a full backup, are you sure you don't want to use something like restic?
If someone deletes a file it's gone, if a virus overwrites it good luck.You didn't specify if your pool should be a distributed one or one individual pool per nas.
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I'll keep Syncthing in mind.
I'll probably go with an all in one NAS just to keep things simple for the less tech savvy people of my family.
Using syncthing to sync emulator save states over the local and public (nat'ed) network
Very reliable and good to configure.
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Hello all! As the title suggests, I'm looking for some help and recommendations for starting a NAS storage/backup between a few households in my family.
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this. This will be my first entry into something something like this, so I'm not entirely sure where to go.
What I would like to do is have an enclosure in each house and have them all sync together. Two drives will be necessary since I'll use one drive just on my own since I have a lot of files to store. The other drive I would like to partition so that each household can be given a set amount of storage.
The rest of my family isn't very tech savvy, so I would prefer a solution that is relatively straight forward to setup and troubleshoot in the rare case I might need them to do something remotely.
I would like to keep the price of the enclosure reasonable since the rest of my family is pitching in on the costs.
Some extra info I copied from one of my comments:
- At this point, will have 2 houses, but likely 3 by next year.
- The first two will be a short drive away, but the third will be hours away.
- The houses are on 100/50Mb fiber. Very stable internet.
- Me being the tech person, I'll access them every way that's available. For the rest of my family I'll likely set them up either with a hardwire or local network.
- We will be using them as part of a 3-2-1 backup for all of our files like photos or documents. I'll be using the second drive for occasional video backup storage.
- The shared drive will probably be 5-10 TB, depending on how much storage each household wants. The second drive for me will be around 20TB.
- We want multiple units so we have multiple copies of all our important files in the event of something like a house burning down.
Another clarification:
We do want to access files from each NAS individually instead of having everyone connect to one master NAS. The storage will be used mainly for archival and backup, so version conflicts of individual files wont be much of a concern.
I have a Synology nas. They recently started thumbing their nose at budget/home users and if I had to buy new I’d consider QNap.
I would set up a nas at each location and enable quick connect.
I would set up a redundant drive pool and create volumes to avoid single drive failure.
I would set up the Drive services. This works just like Dropbox or onedrive. I believe there’s a component that allows Drive on one NAS to sync with Drive on another.
I would set up hyperbackup between the NAS and use Tailscale to avoid playing with firewalls, dns, NAT.
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I would set up federated authentication between the nas.I would set up firewalls and dns.
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I would set up the photos mobile app for everyone.I would set up google/onedrive backups.
I would set up the Drive app on their machines.
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I'll keep Syncthing in mind.
I'll probably go with an all in one NAS just to keep things simple for the less tech savvy people of my family.
I can see why you'd want to go with an off-the-shelf NAS. But, I would carefully check if it supports your use case, as it's quite advanced.
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We will likely read data from every location. That way people can access the data at full speed using WLAN
Read (only) access should be fine. What makes it complicated is if there can be writes from multiple locations. Basically, the simple version would be to just periodically copy the data from the primary to all secondary locations.
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I can see why you'd want to go with an off-the-shelf NAS. But, I would carefully check if it supports your use case, as it's quite advanced.
Our needs are flexible in terms of how the backup is performed in the technical sense, so I would imagine any of the feature rich NAS units can do what we need in some way or another.
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Read (only) access should be fine. What makes it complicated is if there can be writes from multiple locations. Basically, the simple version would be to just periodically copy the data from the primary to all secondary locations.
This will be for long term storage of files like family photos and document safe keeping, i.e. "let's dump all our important files here so we don't lose them". Two people writing to the same file will practically never happen.
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Hello all! As the title suggests, I'm looking for some help and recommendations for starting a NAS storage/backup between a few households in my family.
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this. This will be my first entry into something something like this, so I'm not entirely sure where to go.
What I would like to do is have an enclosure in each house and have them all sync together. Two drives will be necessary since I'll use one drive just on my own since I have a lot of files to store. The other drive I would like to partition so that each household can be given a set amount of storage.
The rest of my family isn't very tech savvy, so I would prefer a solution that is relatively straight forward to setup and troubleshoot in the rare case I might need them to do something remotely.
I would like to keep the price of the enclosure reasonable since the rest of my family is pitching in on the costs.
Some extra info I copied from one of my comments:
- At this point, will have 2 houses, but likely 3 by next year.
- The first two will be a short drive away, but the third will be hours away.
- The houses are on 100/50Mb fiber. Very stable internet.
- Me being the tech person, I'll access them every way that's available. For the rest of my family I'll likely set them up either with a hardwire or local network.
- We will be using them as part of a 3-2-1 backup for all of our files like photos or documents. I'll be using the second drive for occasional video backup storage.
- The shared drive will probably be 5-10 TB, depending on how much storage each household wants. The second drive for me will be around 20TB.
- We want multiple units so we have multiple copies of all our important files in the event of something like a house burning down.
Another clarification:
We do want to access files from each NAS individually instead of having everyone connect to one master NAS. The storage will be used mainly for archival and backup, so version conflicts of individual files wont be much of a concern.
Put them all on the same tailscale/netbird metwork and use restic to encrypted backup from each one to the others. Each hpuse gwts their files from there own box and has encrypted backups to pull from if their unit fails
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Put them all on the same tailscale/netbird metwork and use restic to encrypted backup from each one to the others. Each hpuse gwts their files from there own box and has encrypted backups to pull from if their unit fails
After all the other comments and recommendations, I'll likely do something like that. Haven't looked up Reatic yet, but Tailscale looks to be what I need.
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I def need a massive drive just for me lol. I have multiple drives loaded full of files including an 8TB drive.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sounds like me.
I have lots of stuff.
My media files get replicated to my friends and family - that serves as "backup" for media, since it doesn't change (it grows but existing files don't change) the multiple copies works as backup. That's about 3TB.
My other files (software, user data, phone files, etc) are in a proper backup process which is replicated to those other devices. Backup is compressed, and there's a lot of duplicate files so it really works.
My total storage use is about 5TB, with perhaps 1TB changing in a given month.
