RSYNC'ing from a remote system to a NAS

[hungarianhc]

Hi All,

I'm going to be building a NAS for my home in the very near future. Unrelated to that, I'm going to be building an HTPC for my brother. Hey lives a few hundred miles away. I know I can't count on him to properly back up all the movies he rips so I'd love to set up RSYNC on his HTPC to rsync to a backup folder on my NAS, that way I have all of his movies here backed up locally. Is this possible? What protocol would rsync communicate over? THanks!

 

[stevech]

I think the main problem is that you two don't have adequate data speeds to move multi-gigabyte movie files.

Most good NASes like Synoglogy/QNAP have iSCSI and rSync. But these may work best for NAS to NAS.

Best way for him to backup, I say, is to get a cheap multi-TB USB2 or USB3 or eSATA external disk and use something like $30 Second Copy from Centered Systems to do automatic backups of new files.

 

[hungarianhc]

Thanks, but I don't want any sort of external drive for him. I just want it to be over the net to MY NAS. A scheduled rsync at like 2AM should do the trick... no?

Is there another best practice for how I could get his files to remotely sync over to my NAS?

 

[stevech]

Too much data volume.

 

[hungarianhc]

Too much data volume.

Can you give a better explanation? Thanks!

 

[clintb]

Overall I would tend to agree with stevech, however I'll default to "It depends". You haven't addressed internet connection speeds at each location, nor the amount of ripping (daily/weekly/etc...) your brother will be doing, thus the amount of new data. Is he ripping DVD's or BR? If BR, at 1080 or 720? Too many factors to just throw out a blanket statement.

 

[stevech]

I assumed typical residential cable modem or DSL upstream speeds.
Too slow to move multi-gigabyte HD videos.