Hi everyone! I am relatively new to self hosting and I am in the process of repurposing an old desktop computer as an offsite/remote server that I will have at a friends house.

My setup:

  • Local: RPi 4 running openmediavault
  • Remote: HP EliteDesk SFF running TrueNAS SCALE

My plan was to connect the machines using tailscale and use the borg plugin in openmediavault to create a remote server repo and save deduplicating and encrypted backups from the local server to the remote server. However, it seems that in order to do that I need a borg plugin installed on the remote server for which there doesn’t seem to be a truenas app for. I know I could probably install it on the truenas server, but from what I have read, a truenas update could wipe the install and configuration.

Thus, I would appreciate any suggestions on making the above possible, or alternative setups that would help me achieve what I am looking for. My requirements are:

  • Openmediavault on the local server
  • Encrypted backups
  • Machines connected via VPN (tailscale was just so easy so I would prefer to continue using that, but I can be convinced otherwise)
  • biomechLulu@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Thanks but I’m limited to openmediavault on my Rpi locally. I wanted to try something a little more powerful like truenas to get more experience different linux-based systems. But given that I currently don’t have any major plans for the remote server other than storing backups I may just put a distro that I can install borg on like others have suggested.