How to access a NAS drive at a different location.
Hi
I have two Western Digital EX4100 NAS drives. One as a main drive and one as a backup. Both are currently in my home office but I’d like to keep one unit in my dad’s house round the corner in case of any disaster that affects my house.
Each unit has four drives configured as JBOD, with one NAS acting as a copy of the other. Mirrored RAID would have covered me for drive failure but wouldn’t allow me to locate the mirrored drives at a different location.
OK, I admit it, I’m a pessimist when it comes to data.
I could do periodic updates by copying new files to a USB drive and wandering round to my dad’s to copy them over, but I’m wondering if there’s some way that I can access the NAS at my dad’s from my home computer over the internet, ideally with an automatic sync between the two boxes.
Do any of you have any advice about how I might do that?
I’m sure it should be possible but I’m just not sure how.
My dad doesn’t have a computer but he does have reasonably fast internet access for his smart TV and tablet. If necessary I have a spare small i5 desktop which I could connect to the NAS.. That might allow me to transfer via Dropbox, although it doesn’t seem a particularly elegant solution.
I have two Western Digital EX4100 NAS drives. One as a main drive and one as a backup. Both are currently in my home office but I’d like to keep one unit in my dad’s house round the corner in case of any disaster that affects my house.
Each unit has four drives configured as JBOD, with one NAS acting as a copy of the other. Mirrored RAID would have covered me for drive failure but wouldn’t allow me to locate the mirrored drives at a different location.
OK, I admit it, I’m a pessimist when it comes to data.
I could do periodic updates by copying new files to a USB drive and wandering round to my dad’s to copy them over, but I’m wondering if there’s some way that I can access the NAS at my dad’s from my home computer over the internet, ideally with an automatic sync between the two boxes.
Do any of you have any advice about how I might do that?
I’m sure it should be possible but I’m just not sure how.
My dad doesn’t have a computer but he does have reasonably fast internet access for his smart TV and tablet. If necessary I have a spare small i5 desktop which I could connect to the NAS.. That might allow me to transfer via Dropbox, although it doesn’t seem a particularly elegant solution.
