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A little Barebones PC (Intel NUC) used as a sync server, connected to a 9TB NAS (Thecus N4310 with 4X 3TB HDDs in RAID 5). I do not like the apps included in the NAS, that's why I use the NUC (with Linux) as the "brain" of the backup process, which is done by calling rsync through various cron jobs.

The NUC and the NAS are on their own subnet (with a router dedicated to them) and not accessible from the external network, however the NUC can access a shared folder on my PC which is where it takes the data from (and then it saves it to the NAS).

I do have online, cloud-based backup for less sensitive data, so I can access that while on the move. I use the cloud Drive offer from Mailbox.org (I also use Mailbox.org for mail/calendar/notes/address book).

Lately I'm thinking of replacing the online part with my own cloud server though. Probably I could run something like mail-in-a-box and NextCloud/OwnCloud on my own online VMs. But I'm too lazy and, at least for now, I trust Mailbox.org.



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