Backing up to another site

[Sonic007]

Hi,

I have a friend who owns a business and they’ve recently purchased another office in Bournemouth.

 

Their main server and data is in the Nottingham office.

 

They would like to use their Bournemouth location as a place for an offsite backup of the main files and server in Nottingham.

 

What would be the best way to back the files up?

 

Thankyou.

[Aprice]

Personally I would look at something like a site to site vpn. Then something like hyper backup on synology which would replicate the 'primary' nas to the secondary offsite nas.

 

Or if using Veeam, a backup copy job to the off-site storage.

[dmj]

ZFS replication over wireguard VPN would be my go to. But TBH it's an open question still.

 

It really depends on what the data you are backing up is, how quickly it needs to be recovered, how much data, how in sync the backup needs to be with the source, how skilled your friend is in setting up this sort of thing, how much money he has to spend on it.

[mavhc]

What data, what OS, what kind of backup, replication, archive, restore old versions, disaster recovery?

 

I use ZFS for backup because it's a clone of the entire filesystem, and thus you can delete old incremental versions easily

 

On the server I snapshot automatically every month/week/day/hour, and then sync those snapshots via a one way login so no one can delete a backup without physical access to the backup server, ransomeware-proof

[dmj]

I use ZFS for backup because it's a clone of the entire filesystem, and thus you can delete old incremental versions easily

 

On the server I snapshot automatically every month/week/day/hour, and then sync those snapshots via a one way login so no one can delete a backup without physical access to the backup server, ransomeware-proof

 

This TBH.

It's how we used to backup an entire university site. We were even doing snapshots every 5mins so could recover even the silliest user mistake.

[mavhc]

This TBH.

It's how we used to backup an entire university site. We were even doing snapshots every 5mins so could recover even the silliest user mistake.

 

Only problem I found was listing all the snapshots took too long, so list to a file every hour, and then parse that file

[PotNoodleTech]

Either that or use Veeam which makes it pretty easy to do an encrypted backup copy to pretty much any device you choose, anywhere.