Re: Anyone used FreeNAS?

[Alex Fraser <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ric wrote:
> I want to play with mirroring  fair chunk of data across town between
> mine and a mate's house.
[snip]
> Anyone got any hands-on experience of doing this?
> In terms of doing the sync, can you Rsync over FTP or am I going to
> have to setup a VPN?

No experience of FreeNAS, but some of rsync.

The most sensible method in this case is to run rsync over ssh, using 
passwordless certificates for authentication.

> I'm presuming in terms of remote admin SSH is the way to go?

Possibly. You can use ssh port forwarding to secure a web connection 
(and get through firewall), which might be useful to get to web admin.

> Presuming I do an initial local sync and then just manage the deltas
> sync over the internet I'd hope performance would be slow but
> acceptable...

rsync is pretty quick to work out there is nothing to do, so it really 
depends on how much the data changes.

Alex