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Remote Backup Solution - DIY - NOT Provider

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tallman23

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Searching for guidance on options to create a remote backup of the data on my 2TB hard drive in another geographic location in the event of a fire. While I have a couple of backups of the data, they all reside at home. Not really interested in paying a monthly fee to some company to keep a copy.

Initial thoughts:
1. Use family member's house as a location and backup data to a drive there (unsure how to do this over the Internet/ISP and with minimal latency)
2. Buy another HDD and copy data to it every couple of months and ship it to family member
3. Copy key files to a DVD every month

Option 1 is my goal, how do you do it?

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How about store a 2TB drive at your desk at work or do you work from home?
 
I work in an environment that does 'hoteling,' no option to store a disk at the office.
 
monkizzle said:
setup an ftp server at remote location and use FTP to transfer files over.
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Does this involve building a new machine/case or installing some FTP app on an existing machine?

What about wanting to copy data from the other location to my house? FTP server on both ends?
 
Your best bet for this may be to find a family member who would benefit from a NAS solution in their home, create two identical units (one at each side) with dedicated storage space for each location. Then use rsync to periodically backup the data from one unit to the other.

If you have a NAT device at each end you will need to configure port forwarding at each end, if you have a dynamic IP like most people you will also need to have a dynamic DNS service set up as well. The initial backup will likely take forever, but if your data does not change too much over time then incremental backups should not take too long.
 
How far is your family member?

How much data gets changed a week?

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I have a detached shop and garage. I could keep a backup in the shop, garage, and/or the car.

My daughter works at our house/business. She takes a backup home each week.

There are a lot of cheap solutions depending on how much data you generate and how far you need to move it.
 
GeorgeHR said:
How far is your family member?

How much data gets changed a week?

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I have a detached shop and garage. I could keep a backup in the shop, garage, and/or the car.

My daughter works at our house/business. She takes a backup home each week.

There are a lot of cheap solutions depending on how much data you generate and how far you need to move it.
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Looking at 2000+ miles: Illinois to California. The amount of data that changes monthly is maybe 100MB. Ideal solution would be one where IL and CA (each have a 2TB drive) backs up to each other. Doesn't have to be automated and would rather not invest in something like a NAS. Ideally would like to spend no more than $400 USD for an additional drive at each location (not thinking i need much hardware beyond that).
 
http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html

WAIT before you get mad, they have a free product that allows you to backup to your friends for free.

Truly dependable computer backup means backing up to multiple locations - not just online - which until now could be complicated. CrashPlan automatically backs up to multiple destinations for FREE!
CrashPlan's groundbreaking social backup concept makes it easy to back up to computers belonging to your network of friends or family for offsite backup, in addition to using your own computers and external drives for onsite backup. CrashPlan works on all your computers, so you don't have to worry about compatibility either.
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You're breaking the first rule of backup, it needs to happen with no human intervention at all otherwise at some point the process will break down due to forgetfulness, impatience, etc. I pay them annually to backup ten PCs (mine, parents, etc) and I've not tried the backup to a friend option, but it might be just what you need.
 
^ Seconded. Crashplan lets you do peered backup for free. Create the initial backup on removable disk, then bring/ship to remote location, attach it to peer's crashplan and that way you only have to sync delta going forward
 
odditory said:
^ Seconded. Crashplan lets you do peered backup for free. Create the initial backup on removable disk, then bring/ship to remote location, attach it to peer's crashplan and that way you only have to sync delta going forward
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I like the idea... this option means I don't have to pay anything for a service? Goal is zero subscription costs involved, only hardware.
 
amarshonarbangla said:
Nope, you don't have to pay anything for the P2P backup solution.
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^Thirded even though that isn't a word I don't think. I use Crashplan to backup to their servers but my parents back up to my server every night. Sometimes you just have to do it for the old folks so you don't have to hear about it later. :p
 
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