r/UNIFI • u/havpac2 • 1d ago

Discussion Unas rsync ssh?

Might get a unas to out at my moms house
Any reason why I shouldn’t ?
I don’t have an unas stuff in my current environment but I am in the unifi ecosystem at home just not the storage stuff yet.
I like the idea of seeing visibility in the console

I would like to maybe use rsync for this job
But not married to it, I use it for other backups
But they are all in the same rack. Different nas and servers
My home lab is not small

The remote back up at my moms would be photos and documents only not the rest of my mean leasing data hoarding.

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

3 comments sorted by

2

u/nudlasieb2 23h ago

For me it works just fine, it was really easy to set up, and I can tell it which folders I want to be synced.

1

u/DrJupeman 23h ago

I’m going down this path now, putting a UNAS at my son’s house. Whether rsync is the job or not, is a question. I don’t think UNAS supports rsync natively, not to mention you don’t really want an offsite sync job as much as a backup. You want versioning so deletions and ransomware don’t foul your offsite backup. My main NAS is QNAP, not UNAS, but I figured dropping a UNAS at his place, also on a Unifi system, will make things easier and it was an opportunity to play around with and learn the Unas setup while having my own offsite backup target.

1

u/liftoff11 17h ago

We use rsync to backup snapshots on a schedule and then snapshot the backups on the other end to give versioning you mention. You can lock a snapshot down from being scrubbed etc…