NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi All,

I'm looking for help, direction, ideas etc.

I have a customer that I have setup with NASLite-2 HDD that requires a off site backup copy of one of the drives on the NASLite server. By off site backup I mean physically take home the backup copy for disaster recovery.

I have tried an external USB HDD attached to his laptop, however there is overheating issues with this method.

I need a set & forget setup as the user is not very PC smart, preferably standalone as there is issues with attaching to the existing network PC's.

My latest thought was to use another smaller portable NAS device to do the job, it would need to have its own mirror/backup/schedule software.

Is there anyone out there doing anything like this & can give me some ideas?

Well if s/he has a fast connection to the internet you could set up a VPN to an off site machine and another NL box through it to do an Rsync back up. Otherwise there are not any real solutions other than the portable USB drive you mentioned and that requires interaction at least twice a day. Once when they come in and have to connect it and the second when they take it home for the night. Either way they will get lazy and that will end quickly.

Mike

What about using dd-wrt or alike on your router and portforward rsync through ssh. Haven't done it but could be done.

Hi All,

Thanks for the replies...

I have just read the following in the NASLite-2 Manual,

The NASLite-2 disk backup mirroring can be very
useful when properly implemented. It can be utilized
within a VPN for cross-office filesystem replication,
daily disk-to-disk local snapshot backups or to mirror
between two redundant NASLite-2 servers.

I think I will talk to the client about setting up another NASLite-2 server at his home & use their ADSL & a VPN to look after the off-site mirror.

Has anyone tried the above?

Problems I can see are,

VPN down at time of mirror
will the NASLite-2 mirror start as usual the next day after an outage?
if the link is down for some time, days/weeks, what will the NASLite-2 Mirror do?

Slow ADSL link,
how will NASLite-2 Mirror handle a very slow link?

First mirror will need to be performed on site to save initial large upload
what happens if the mirror IP is changed on the NASLite-2 Mirror server but the data has not changed on the remote?

Could any one from Server Elements help with any answers.