Back up of offsite PC

[osouthwood]

Hi Guys

New to FreeNas and my first post: was just wondering if it was possible to back up and off site PC to my FreeNas system at home?

Cheers for your help

Ollie

 

[paul]

Ftp

FTP :)
you will need to open a port

i don't use a pc i use mac so i use AFP and i can just type in my bower AFP://ip.ip.ip.ip
and as i made a disk time machine i can backup over the internet and where i live i have a server runing on high speed internet so i can get to the server faster but if you have slow internet don't use it will take days

Hi Guys

New to FreeNas and my first post: was just wondering if it was possible to back up and off site PC to my FreeNas system at home?

Cheers for your help

Ollie

 

[toddos]

FTP :)
you will need to open a port

i don't use a pc i use mac so i use AFP and i can just type in my bower AFP://ip.ip.ip.ip
and as i made a disk time machine i can backup over the internet and where i live i have a server runing on high speed internet so i can get to the server faster but if you have slow internet don't use it will take days

Better than FTP, consider using rsync. That's pretty much exactly what rsync is designed for.

 

[fisheater]

Use ZFS replication. Best option using the strength of this system.

 

[toddos]

Use ZFS replication. Best option using the strength of this system.

Wouldn't that require the offsite PC to be using ZFS? I read the request as "I have a PC elsewhere that I want to back up to a FreeNAS server", not "I have a FreeNAS server that I want to back up to a PC that's offsite". The former should use rsync. The latter should use ZFS replication.