ezekiel.incorrigible
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- Aug 10, 2018
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I am tasked with designing the network and setting up a NAS / Cloud storage system for a few dozen users in a small office. We would like to have automated synchronisation from everybody's workstations to the storage server, group file shares and both local and remote access to those shares.
My loose plan is:
- FreeNAS / ZFS as the base system - then it will be easy to manage the storage pool through the webGUI and capitalise on all the nice ZFS features like snapshotting, data integrity, transparent compression etc. And also to periodically backup the whole system by transmitting snapshots to another, off-site ZFS system.
- Nextcloud in a jail on top of FreeNAS - running using application level encryption and 2FA
- Placing the server in the DMZ, accessible remotely and locally via a VPN (using external port forwarding / NAT-loopback).
Would love to hear comments, critiques, suggestions on the best way to do this, like... maybe there isn't much point in putting the server in the DMZ if most machines on the LAN will be in a VPN with it anyway?
[disclaimer: I posted this in spiceworks already but didn't get any answers, except 'use onedrive', thought the FreeNAS folks would likely have some insights.]
My loose plan is:
- FreeNAS / ZFS as the base system - then it will be easy to manage the storage pool through the webGUI and capitalise on all the nice ZFS features like snapshotting, data integrity, transparent compression etc. And also to periodically backup the whole system by transmitting snapshots to another, off-site ZFS system.
- Nextcloud in a jail on top of FreeNAS - running using application level encryption and 2FA
- Placing the server in the DMZ, accessible remotely and locally via a VPN (using external port forwarding / NAT-loopback).
Would love to hear comments, critiques, suggestions on the best way to do this, like... maybe there isn't much point in putting the server in the DMZ if most machines on the LAN will be in a VPN with it anyway?
[disclaimer: I posted this in spiceworks already but didn't get any answers, except 'use onedrive', thought the FreeNAS folks would likely have some insights.]