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      Francesco Provino
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      I got a new customer, a small office with just three Windows clients that was just hit by a ransomware, so I've the duty to protect their data as well as possible from issues like that.

      I think about a Dropbox Pro for file syncing between clients and Backblaze pro for backupโ€ฆ maybe a small Synology also for local backup and desktop image archiving (veeam endpoint or clonezilla image for fast bare-metal recovery in case of a major fault).

      They have a standard ADSL connection with ~512Kb of upload, and the files to backup are in the range of 100Gb.
      I hope that my plan will serve well for data protection, sharing and DR, but if have any tip about it, please share!

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        Deleted74295 Banned
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        512KB of upload? Any way of getting them a better internet connection?

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          Francesco Provino @Deleted74295
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          @Breffni-Potter nope, not under 2-300โ‚ฌ/month (HDSL). Not worth the price for such a small office.

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            Even on 4G?

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              Francesco Provino @Deleted74295
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              @Breffni-Potter 4G is not an option, we don't have flat-rate plan for mobile connectivity in Italy. It's not worth to pay 1โ‚ฌ/Gb-traffic/month for that.

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                Deleted74295 Banned
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                Yeah, that's a shame.

                I'd be loathe to cripple their upload personally. Especially with DropBox syncs happening at the same time. Hmm...

                I'd be tempted to look into a NextCloud deployment where you have an onsite server and a hosted server, the onsite server has all the data stored and then syncs with the hosted server. So there's just 1 device passing files rather than everyone. Then backup the hosted server onto BackBlaze B2.

                I've not done NextCloud deployments so this might not be possible.

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                  scottalanmiller @Deleted74295
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                  @Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:

                  512KB of upload? Any way of getting them a better internet connection?

                  Italy. I'm going to be in the same boat in a few weeks ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                    scottalanmiller @Deleted74295
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                    @Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:

                    Then backup the hosted server onto BackBlaze B2.

                    I've not done NextCloud deployments so this might not be possible.

                    That would work. NextCloud to B2 would work fine.

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                      Francesco Provino @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                      @Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:

                      512KB of upload? Any way of getting them a better internet connection?

                      Italy. I'm going to be in the same boat in a few weeks ๐Ÿ˜ž

                      Really? Where? Maybe we can take a coffee together ๐Ÿ˜!

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                        Deleted74295 Banned @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                        @Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:

                        Then backup the hosted server onto BackBlaze B2.

                        I've not done NextCloud deployments so this might not be possible.

                        That would work. NextCloud to B2 would work fine.

                        I meant the sync/replication from an onsite box to a cloudy box. Internal users are forced to local, maybe with DNS trickery so they are not reliant on the internet so much. External users use the hosted server for speed.

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                          scottalanmiller @Francesco Provino
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                          @Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                          @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                          @Breffni-Potter said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync e backup:

                          512KB of upload? Any way of getting them a better internet connection?

                          Italy. I'm going to be in the same boat in a few weeks ๐Ÿ˜ž

                          Really? Where? Maybe we can take a coffee together ๐Ÿ˜!

                          Noto, Sicily. Will spend a week in Rome on my way into the country. I arrive 16 January.

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                            scottalanmiller @Francesco Provino
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                            @Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?

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                              Francesco Provino @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                              @Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?

                              No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily ๐Ÿ‘. I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!

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                                scottalanmiller @Francesco Provino
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                                @Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                @Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?

                                No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily ๐Ÿ‘. I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!

                                You live there still, now? We will definitely be there some of the time. My wife's family is from a village right outside of Palermo and we hope to spend some time there looking for some birth and death records at the church.

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                                  Francesco Provino @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                  @Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                  @Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?

                                  No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily ๐Ÿ‘. I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!

                                  You live there still, now? We will definitely be there some of the time. My wife's family is from a village right outside of Palermo and we hope to spend some time there looking for some birth and death records at the church.

                                  Yes, I'm Palermo right now. What village? I'm from Bagheria, in truth, ~20km from Palermoโ€ฆ

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                                    scottalanmiller @Francesco Provino
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                                    @Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                    @Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                    @Francesco-Provino have you seen how I have been working hard on my Italian on DuoLingo to prepare for three months there?

                                    No, just watched now! I'm from Palermo, also in Sicily ๐Ÿ‘. I'll PM you about that, it would be great to meet you!

                                    You live there still, now? We will definitely be there some of the time. My wife's family is from a village right outside of Palermo and we hope to spend some time there looking for some birth and death records at the church.

                                    Yes, I'm Palermo right now. What village? I'm from Bagheria, in truth, ~20km from Palermoโ€ฆ

                                    I'll get the actual name when she wakes up.

                                    Oh wait, San Guiseppe.

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                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      I think that regular NextCloud or something similar, will work well here if their use storage as most users do. With NextCloud you have the files saved locally (desktop or laptop) and then the client does a background sync to the server. The problem is that when sharing files between users it all goes over the WAN. So if they share files with each other all of the time, then that does not work well. If they share rarely, it works great.

                                      If the LAN portion is all LAN and really never varies then using something like Synology locally and having another Synology hosted elsewhere with CrashPlan or Backblaze on the Synology at the hosted location, then you are all set. You don't really need a Synology in the other location, a low cost Vultr storage VM would do it, too.

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                                        dafyre
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                                        Excepting the upload speeds, why would a NextCloud setup hosted on Vultr or someplace more local not work? -- or is upload speed the limiting factor for everything?

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                                          scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                                          @dafyre said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

                                          Excepting the upload speeds, why would a NextCloud setup hosted on Vultr or someplace more local not work? -- or is upload speed the limiting factor for everything?

                                          Oh yeah, NextCloud on Vultr or similar is what I meant when I said NextCloud. That would be ideal if there isn't a lot of sharing. NextCloud on a Vultr storage instance for like $10 or $20/mo. Then a BackBlaze B2 account and backups via script.

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                                            Francesco Provino @scottalanmiller
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                                            Mmmh, great suggestion, but isn't Dropbox Pro even more simple? It can also leverage LAN sync!

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