Noob here...can you map a drive to your NAS from a remote machine?

[whitenack]

Hey all,

Is it possible to map a NAS drive on your PC even when it is off site?

I am brainstorming to see if it is possible to create my own "cloud" backup storage, with a NAS offsite somewhere and get my computers to automatically back up to it.

 

[ColinTaylor]

That would depend on what sort of network connection you have to the remote site. But if you're using a site to site VPN it should be pretty straight forward.

 

[whitenack]

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to figure out how to save data at an offsite location without having to use a sync software like dropbox/resilio sync which means I have to have storage space on the local machine too.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Like I said, it should be pretty straight forward, but you need to provide more detailed criteria to narrow down the options. "offsite somewhere" doesn't help much. Is that a remote office location of yours, a virtual server, a commercial backup service, etc. How much are you willing to pay per month? Operating systems? Volume of data? Bandwidth to "remote location"? Capacity? etc, etc.