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Building a home server. Please help, DC!

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superboyac:
I know I recommended it in your other thread but I'll recommend Windows Home Server once again.  I've used it since being part of the beta test and love it.
-skwire (December 01, 2009, 05:47 PM)
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Yeah, your post was the one that introduced me to it.  Thanks.  At this point, it looks like I'll go that way.

superboyac:
I've run into a more pressing need right now, please help me out with a few questions:

I need to back up my information to something off-site.  Now, instead of paying for a service, I'd like to set up something in either my parent's house or my sister's house.  What's the easiest way to do this?  Can I just buy a NAS and connect it to their router?  How do I access and administer the NAS from my house?  Through ftp?  Or through http?  Or something different?  I just want to sync the files from my hard drive to that one.

40hz:
Take a look at CrashPlan and/or CrashPlan+.

The Home Server Show website ran an interesting two-part article on using it with WHS. Sounds very much like what you're trying to accomplish. (Note: I haven't tried this yet, but I've got it on my to-do list for March. Looks promising! :Thmbsup:)

Here's the links for the article:

http://homeservershow.com/whs-and-crashplan-for-social-cloud-backup-part-1.html
http://homeservershow.com/whs-and-crashplan-for-social-cloud-backup-part-2.html

Link for CrashPlan homepage: http://www9.crashplan.com/consumer/index.html

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Obligatory Disclaimer: 40hz has no affiliation (financial or otherwise) with the makers of CrashPlan.

Perry Mowbray:
I've run into a more pressing need right now, please help me out with a few questions:

I need to back up my information to something off-site.  Now, instead of paying for a service, I'd like to set up something in either my parent's house or my sister's house.  What's the easiest way to do this?  Can I just buy a NAS and connect it to their router?  How do I access and administer the NAS from my house?  Through ftp?  Or through http?  Or something different?  I just want to sync the files from my hard drive to that one.
-superboyac (February 18, 2010, 03:10 PM)
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I have a Synology NAS, which is able to use various services (I use DYNDNS.org) to keep a (free) hostname registered to the (probably variable) IP address; and from there you can set up ftp and/or http etc.

You should be able to ftp straight to it, although I have not attempted to do that from an external site.

superboyac:
As usual, 40hz is two steps ahead of me.  Good to have you back, man!

Thanks Perry, I'll check that out.  I don't know what would be better: ftp or http.  I'm guessing ftp is more appropriate for file syncing.

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