#Nas with bittorrent sync how to
#Nas with bittorrent sync download

#Nas with bittorrent sync how to

Here is a quick rundown on how to getting the Banana Pi up and running.

OEM Powered USB-hub – To power the USB-disk.įirst we need to setup the Pi of your choice, in my case a Banana Pi.

Samsung M3 4TB USB-disk – My standard backup disk already encrypted with Truecrypt.

20×4 LCD – Got a cheap one for $10 on Ebay with an I2C backpack allready soldered on.

Banana Pi – I went with this choise due to it’s Gbit network which makes a huge difference with BitTorrent Sync.

So the part list for this build came out to this: Since I already have the LCD display connected I want this information there as well.

Progress – I also wanted status and progress information easily accessable without having to login to the webui all the time.

To sort this out I added an 20×4 LCD display to the PI to display the IP-address so it will be easy to SSH into it.

Since I have access to the DHCP server I could check it there or scan the network for it but I want this to be easy. We use DHCP at the office so it will not always get the same IP. So when power is connected and the device boots up I need to SSH into it and mount the drive with the encryption key. Access – To make the security work I can not save the encryption key on the Pi since it would be easy enough to extract if it was stolen.To make sure I could use the encrypted drive on all my machines I opted for compiling Truecrypt 7.1a for the arm processor. At the same time as I want encryption I want to be able to grab the disk and attach it to any of my machines in case of recovery. Security – What if someone steals this contraption from my desk? I want my files to be secure if that would happen so I need to encrypt the usb disk.There were a few design challenges with this build: I already have a btsync server running on an Odroid in the apartment, you can read more about that build in the Raspberry Pi: BitTorrent Sync article.

#Nas with bittorrent sync download

Since we have a high speed internet connection at the office, without a data cap, just sitting idle during the night I decided to build a btsync client that can download and retain a complete copy of my NAS. If I need to recover it will take to long, and cost to much, flying back to get it. The off-site backup from my San Francisco apartment is currently going to my apartment in Sweden. With this solution you can just pickup your hard drive at the other location and do a local copy to restore. Another point is that large amount of data will take a long time to recover if you need to download it all over the internet. On top of that everyone have some private data that they don’t want to upload into the cloud for different reasons. Media files and all the video recorded with my GoPro will just take up to much space. But putting all data there will cost to much. Most of my off-site backups are in the cloud. So we are going to build a BitTorrent Sync “satellite” But to be honest how often will that backup be done if you have to remember to bring the disk back and forth? We want automatic backups to our offsite location, in this case my office. A lot of people take a USB-disk to a second location, like their office, to mitigate this problem.

If there is a fire or a break in you will still lose your data.

If you only have a USB-disk backup of your NAS it only protects you against hardware failure. Most people confuse redundancy and backup. Building a geo-location backup for your NAS is a good idea! To spread the risk over two or more locations increases your backup value a lot.