First, will Syncback Pro back up over a local network or over the internet to a WD My Cloud drive?
Second, if so, does someone have a strategy to suggest as to how to configure the topology (or put another way, the strategy) so that the files on the My Cloud are available remotely?
Read on to see what I mean.
Here is my current process: I have two high capacity external drives, call them A and B. A is at my home office. Each night I use Syncback Pro to mirror my DATA files from my two desktop computers and my notebook computer to A. Once or twice a month I take A to my remote storage location and retrieve B, which then becomes the drive to which I do the nightly mirror.
Advantages: Redundant backup, protection from theft or natural disaster, not simply hard drive crashes.
Disadvantages: No access to files on the main desktop when I’m away from home.
The disadvantage is what I’m hoping to cure with a My Cloud drive (which I want to have a workable solution before I get). If I configure a My Cloud as the working drive for the data files, I can always retrieve and save the most current copy of a file there, even when working remotely. But that means that the local data files on my desktop computer would become the backup, which adds an element of confusion that is likely to cause problems.
I've also thought of using two My Cloud drives, one on the local network as the working data file location, one on a remote network as a backup location.
Second, if so, does someone have a strategy to suggest as to how to configure the topology (or put another way, the strategy) so that the files on the My Cloud are available remotely?
Read on to see what I mean.
Here is my current process: I have two high capacity external drives, call them A and B. A is at my home office. Each night I use Syncback Pro to mirror my DATA files from my two desktop computers and my notebook computer to A. Once or twice a month I take A to my remote storage location and retrieve B, which then becomes the drive to which I do the nightly mirror.
Advantages: Redundant backup, protection from theft or natural disaster, not simply hard drive crashes.
Disadvantages: No access to files on the main desktop when I’m away from home.
The disadvantage is what I’m hoping to cure with a My Cloud drive (which I want to have a workable solution before I get). If I configure a My Cloud as the working drive for the data files, I can always retrieve and save the most current copy of a file there, even when working remotely. But that means that the local data files on my desktop computer would become the backup, which adds an element of confusion that is likely to cause problems.
I've also thought of using two My Cloud drives, one on the local network as the working data file location, one on a remote network as a backup location.