Getting files from your PC to a safe place online: here are some quick tips for the first time you try this.
Getting files from your PC to a safe place online: here are some quick tips for the first time you try this.
Hey there! I'm currently running an Openmediavault and thinking about doing remote backups for another Openmediavault server at my friend's house. How should I do this? What is involved in securely accessing a server that isn't on my home network? I've heard you can either use a push or pull method for backing up data. Which one sounds better to me?
Way to hard to say in detail. It depends on what features the box has that can do this. I assume if you would have 2 on lan they can somehow copy data between them ? So the method that likely will have the highest chance of working is to make a vpn between your house and other house. This makes the 2 lans "mostly" appear as a single network. This also tends to be the most secure because you are worrying about the end device having security exposures or bugs. Other methods depends on how you get access via the internet to a device like this. This tends to be very proprietary so there is no way to say for sure. Some the data flows through the companies servers which you then get the risk of data theft or other security issues. The key issue that will kill this project is you need a public IP on at least one end of the connection. This is true no matter if you use vpn or some other solution. It is better to have public IP on both ends. The simplest vpn solution is to have the vpn run on the routers. Some disk systems have vpn ability again it varies greatly between these devices.
There is another thing to keep in mind here. I don't know what kind of stuff you use on this site, but if you aren't the owner or have rights to it, your internet service provider could slow down or cut off access to that content entirely. They might also send a nasty message or worse because they think you broke the law by using copyrighted things without permission.
Thanks so much - really appreciate it. I'm a little confused about this stuff right now. Just wanted to ask one question: is there actually any real difference between using Wireguard and Cloudflare? They both seem pretty similar, but one feels like a reverse proxy (Cloudflare) while the other looks more like a VPN (Wireguard).
Cloudflare is really big. They mostly host stuff like web servers and do DNS if you use 1.1.1.1. Maybe they sell some VPNs too. I don't know what a reverse proxy actually means, but I should always be careful using services like that because your data goes through their servers. Wireguard is one of the many ways to use a VPN. You also see OpenVPN often used. There are other choices, but old IPSEC is still popular among corporate people for point-to-point connections. OpenVPN gets more support right now, though Wireguard is getting more common too. Wireguard is faster and I don't know what the downside is with it. Both of them seem very secure to me.