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A non-cloud off-site backup appliance. This is what I want (I know there are alternatives, but this is what I want): A device that I buy, and can plug at leas
by cromulent 10y ago
A non-cloud off-site backup appliance.
This is what I want (I know there are alternatives, but this is what I want):
A device that I buy, and can plug at least one hard drive in to. I give it some sort of passphrase. I then place it in a friend's house and connect it to their internet connection.
I can then access it remotely from my house. I can easily backup my stuff to it. My backups are encrypted, both over the wire and on the drive.
When my house burns down, I can drive over there and get all my photos and records and stuff, instantly.
I don't pay a monthly fee. I buy the device and then it is mine.
I know I can build this myself. I don't have time. If I could buy this I would.
It would be nice if it was easy to use the other way around, e.g. buy one for your parents and keep it at your house and automate their backups somehow.
- jlengrand 10y agoHey there, I know it does not totally answer your request, but you totally can achieve that with Crashplan; and for free. Simply buy a NAS or equivalent, place it at your parents and install Crashplan on it. It is not as perfect as a totally untied system like you want, but it is free and offsite :). I am a happy customer of Crashplan for a while but other than that I have no ties there :). https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/ https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/
- cromulent 10y agoYeah, I think it is close but not quite. It seems that you can back up to a friend's trusted computer, but it has to be turned on. Plus I don't necessarily want to trust them in that way.
- firewalkwithme 10y agoI want exactly the same thing!
- jjp 10y agoTry Synology Hyperdrive. I'd assume that all the other NAS vendors do something similar.
- chadcmulligan 10y agoYou can do this with Time Capsule I believe. Doesn't help for windows or linux of course.
- mynewtb 10y agoRaspberry running an SSH daemon or rsync or attic or whatever?
- rm445 10y agoProduct already exists in the form of consumer NAS devices. You don't have to build anything, just turn on remote access.
- Tomte 10y agoYou could probably do something like that with FreeNAS and ZFS send. Also, Crashplan has a "backup to friends" feature.
- rakoo 10y agoIf you expect your friend to accept having something plugged all the time, I assume you'd be ok with having a similar device at your place running their backup, right ? In that case, you can buy a NAS for you, have them buy one for them, backup stuff on your own NAS and let the replication from your NAS to their NAS happen in the background. Bonus: backups/restore/browsing are much faster, and you can more easily accommodate multiple people wanting to backup at the same place -- instead of one device at your place for each of your friend, it's only one at your place to which all your friend's NAS backup to. I use Synology NAS, not with this setup, but I know they have the software to do exactly this.
- wodenokoto 10y agoThere's been a few services like this. None have seems to have made it, at least I can't remember any names.
- tibu 10y agoMy Synology NAS does exactly this. Besides this it backs up my Google Drive and Dropbox too.