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  • Ahh gotcha, I misunderstood that then. I could probably set up a VPN there but don’t want to over complicate it. An always on Pi will be fine I think, they are low power. I could also add a smart switch and set up a schedule or something but I don’t think thats worth the hassle considering the low power usage of a pi.

    Hmmm that’s a good point about syncthing backing up corrupt files. I was thinking to use it because I already use it extensively and I wouldn’t need to mess with port forwarding or anything of the sort.

    I had multiple copies of files previously as a backup “strategy” and it got way out of hand where I have like 1.5m photos lol. What do you recommend as an alternative to syncthing?



  • I think this is the play. I’ll likely just get an enclosure for the two 4TB drives I have and can always buy an external drive in the future and get them to plug it in.

    I don’t have any experience in setting up wire guard so I’ll have to look into that. I was thinking to use syncthing since that skips the need for that, but I think someone in the thread mentioned that may not be ideal in case of file corruption.

    Do you just have raspbian on the pi?



  • Thanks for the detailed reply.

    So my main NAS is Unraid, and I also have a couple of proxmox boxes. Though I’m less concerned about the proxmox boxes as the main files are on the NAS, and I have a proxmox backup server vm set up on Unraid with regular backups there.

    For most of my important files on unraid, I have an external drive that I periodically sync and store in a safe.

    I also have access to a VPS with over 1TB of space which I am still figuring out how to best integrate into my backup strategy.

    For what I’m asking here, I just want to have a simple solution that I can tuck away and have remote access to and just use syncthing or something to keep it updated.