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I currently have a 3TB hard disk attached to my RPi running a samba server which several family laptops/PCs using Aomei backup to.

My plan is to allow internet access for these machines to continue back up their incremental backups when they are not local.

I see that allowing the samba to be internet accessible is a very bad idea, so I have researched some options:

  1. Samba (discounted)
  2. Owncloud
  3. sshfs (not being updated)
  4. ftp (not secure, slow)
  5. sftp
  6. VPN + samba (complicated, might be over the top)

Before I get started testing out each of these methods, does anyone have any warnings, preferences or suggestions? I need to be able to continue these backups from windows machines!

Thanks

Lucidnonsense
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I would use rsync: it can use ssh keys for authentication. So for backup you just need to have ssh access from the (non-local) machine to the pi, and use something like rsync -vr /some/folder my_user@my_pi.some.domain:/storage/backups/

dexterlb
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