I’ll keep Syncthing in mind.
I’ll probably go with an all in one NAS just to keep things simple for the less tech savvy people of my family.
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stuner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would probably go with a simple approach like this:
- ZFS: Each house gets a “NAS” that provides a ZFS filesystem to store the data. This gives you the ability to share the drives across your use cases (you, rest of the family), snapshots, RAIDZ support, and usage quotas. For the OS, you could use what you prefer (TrueNAS, Debian, Ubuntu, …).
- Syncthing to synchronize the files across the servers/houses. This allows you to read and write data from anywhere and syncthing will mirror the writes to the other places. I use it to synchronize data across 5 devices and it works quite well.
There are probably more advanced (enterprise?) ways to handle the file synchronization. But, I think this hould be good enough for normal, personal use. The main disadvantage is that you’re only synchronizing the current data (excluding the ZFS snapshots). On the other hand, this also allows you to mix file systems if necessary.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Using syncthing to sync emulator save states over the local and public (nat’ed) network
Very reliable and good to configure.
stuner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can see why you’d want to go with an off-the-shelf NAS. But, I would carefully check if it supports your use case, as it’s quite advanced.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Our needs are flexible in terms of how the backup is performed in the technical sense, so I would imagine any of the feature rich NAS units can do what we need in some way or another.
stuner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If the data only needs to be read & written from a single server (and the others are just backups), you can also use simpler replication instead of synchthing. E.g. syncoid or TrueNAS replication. It sounds like you should be able to do that with separate datasets per household in your usecase.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
We will likely read data from every location. That way people can access the data at full speed using WLAN
stuner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Read (only) access should be fine. What makes it complicated is if there can be writes from multiple locations. Basically, the simple version would be to just periodically copy the data from the primary to all secondary locations.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
This will be for long term storage of files like family photos and document safe keeping, i.e. “let’s dump all our important files here so we don’t lose them”. Two people writing to the same file will practically never happen.