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so I finally gotten around to going to my in-law's house to set up my off-site

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backup server so here's the fractal Define R3 that has my server config in

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it so I'm just going to get a little closer here I'm using manual focus today

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which is sort of difficult because this

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camera has a really clunky way of doing it but uh let's do a quick tour of the

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machine while I talk a little bit about what I'm going to be doing to make use

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of this offsite backup server so I'll

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need to actually get the side panel off

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for one thing and then that fan is plugged in there so I got to be careful

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with it so here we are the offsite

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backup server what's the point of this well I've got my regular Home Server

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which backs up all my data and doesn't protect me in the event of theft or fire

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or whatever else that can happen so I buil bu myself a separate machine that

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can do nightly backups of all of My Essentials and I want my so okay so my

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Home Server will do a nightly backup and then it will do a nightly sync to this

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one so the Home Server is about 20 terab and this one is only 8x1 terab running

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in raid 5 with a hot spare off of this LSI

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9240 uh -4i raid card so this one's

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significantly smaller which means that I'm going to be only doing my essentials

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you know my family pictures and videos and stuff like that the boot Drive is of

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course there Force GT 60 gig SSD and then this ninth drive here is actually

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only for the purpose of uh backing up

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the boot drive so backing up the actual OS uh it's running Windows Home Server

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uh V2 so Windows Home Server 2011 and

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it's got a uh a Phenom or rather a FX

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8140 so that's a lower power but still quite High quite quite powerful 8 core

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chip 2 gigs of RAM uh just random video

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card and it's I mean this was the only AMD motherboard I had lying around so

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it's got a Crosshair 4 formula in it so I'm going to be throwing it under the

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desk here and I'll show you guys the

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software configuration shortly so the software setup is actually fairly

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simple um there's just a few things you got to do so you got to make sure that

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you set up your FTP server on the on the remote backup server so I did an NCI

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Tech tip episode about this the one thing that I left out in that one is

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making sure that you set a static local IP for the server itself because

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otherwise every time you unplug or plug in an Ethernet cable it can change and

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that's going to mess up all your settings so you just set your FTP Port

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um set all your user account settings

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um yeah set up your router now this is

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something that's a little bit tricky so I've got all my Windows Home Server

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ports forwarded and then what I've discovered and this is sort of weird is

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that um whenever I'm forwarding the FTP Port even though it's a single port if I

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use the single port forwarding on my linkis router it doesn't work and then

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if I use port range forwarding and then just put the one port in there then it

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does work and then this is my FTP transfer so once that's all set up then

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what you got to do is make sure you're testing it so in this case I'm remote

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desktop remote desk topping into my computer at home and then making sure

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that I can actually connect you can see the uh the FTP server is seeing the

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connection and I'm in and I can browse

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and so everything is working as it should in fact here I'm just going to

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show you guys you know every time I do something here both of those are active so this is

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this is my computer at home that I'm remote desk topped into using Windows

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Home Server so now everything is set up for remote access to the FTP and what's

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left is to uh actually set up the nightly syn

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now that I'm back back at home I can show you guys what I've got set up here so for those of you who haven't seen it

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already that's my 3x or rather 8x3 tbte

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storage server and this is the software

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that I'm using so I want to show you guys a couple things this is web drive

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this is the magical $80 utility that

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makes this all happen this is a heck of a lot better than paying for a monthly

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service because you set up the hardware for yourself once you set this up and

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boom you got your own personal cloud so very cool stuff so all you got to do is

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is add a web Drive map it to a drive letter see this is the key because

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without being able to map FTP doesn't work exactly the same way as your local

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as your local drive so you have to kind of trick the OS so we have mapped using

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web drive this offsite backup server to

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the Z drive with that we can use free

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synchronization Tools in order to do the nightly sync that don't involve any kind

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of like special uh special software

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configuration so we can just

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sync some folder to some other folder no

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problem now you can do onetime syncs with free file sync or you can actually

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set up batch ones so let me just see if I no wrong one see if I remember how to

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do this I just did it last night yeah here we go so you set up these batch

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ones and then you basically yeah I don't

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know Advance yeah create batch job there it is okay here we go here we go here we

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go so you set it up put your batch settings and all that and you save as

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and you create all these batch files now this is a very manual way to do it but I

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couldn't find anything more elegant syn toy didn't work I did have trouble with

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syn toy um deleting things that were

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gone from the left folder from the right folder no matter how I set up the

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relationship so um so free file sync ended up being able to do that uh even

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over the FTP so you set up all these these things and then you go into the

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task Schuler in Windows task Schuler there it

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is Windows and you set up a nightly

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task of all of the see there they are of

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all of these things to run at a particular time every day now as long as

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you don't make huge wholesale changes uh in one day then it shouldn't be uh

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shouldn't be too hard on your internet connection but you should have a pretty decent upload so I have a 5 megabit

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upload I'm hoping to upgrade to a 15 megabit upload soon which will give me

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much much faster nightly sinks and that's pretty much it in terms of the uh

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in terms of the software setup I mean I should show you guys what the navigation

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is like from the uh the FTP so this is an FTP you'd never know

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it users lonus uh find some I don't know some

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video or something home videos look

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there's a fly in the h so you just uh you can't play directly

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from there it doesn't quite work that way but you can paste and then download

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the file for you and because their uh

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their internet connection's kind of not that fast you can see it's not coming

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down all that fast it's a 960 Meg file so I think you guys get the point but

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you can see that this behaves like a native Windows transfer which is what

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makes all this sort of magically come together so thank you oh okay right so

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security securing your connection is outside the scope of this video video so

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you guys will have to figure that part out on your own there's FTP security

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there's uh a variety of different things what I've done is I've set a hard um IP

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Black List and then I've set a white list for just myself to that remote

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backup FTP so um that doesn't secure me

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against everything because I'm not actually encrypting the data that I'm

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transing right now but it does prevent people from just randomly logging into

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that backup FTP the offsite FTP so thank you for

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