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Leaving public Cloud Storage (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Gredo89@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hello everyone,

I am currently planning to leave Google Drive with all my data (currently "only" 90GB).

I like the idea of being able to access my data from everywhere though.

Due to how ISPs work where I live, I don't have a fixed IP, except I pay a monthly fee for that and become a "business client".

What do I need besides a NAS (or a Pi with an attached external HDD) to store and access my data?

I currently only have a Laptop and a Pi 3B + WD Elements I already use for Plex.

Plex has the "luxury" of auto-configuring my router and somehow mapping its IP so I can "just connect" from everywhere.

Is there something like that for storage?

What security measures should I consider?

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[–] Not_your_guy_buddy42@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The NAS can do almost everything you need except offsite C2.
For example Synology ((so far I only had these)) has a built-in DynDNS service that gives you a subdomain you can access the NAS through without extra steps. I bet all the other NAS brands have this built-in as well. Whichever you pick, definitely have 2FA enabled. Also if you can setup your storage pool as btrfs that's great too.

As others pointed out, you need an offsite copy on some C2 provider or a friend's NAS or whatever. (if you've really no budget, you could get a bunch on free subscriptions (dropbox etc.) and split up the backups between them).
The NAS will have an app that already supports a whole lot of providers + things like external USB drive and you can setup automatic backup there.