Using WHS as a remote back up server - possible?

[Trajan]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question, I wasn't sure where to put it.

I'm planning out a Windows Home Server box, primarily to use as a backup server. My parents live a few towns over, and I thought that for security/redundancy purposes, I might do an initial backup over a LAN, then move the box to their house and do future backups via the internet.

Is this possible with WHS? Can I have it located on my parent's network and (via the internet) still directly access/mount/auto-backup onto its drives via my Windows computers?

I don't have a huge amount of data turn over so I don't think this is going to be too slow a solution, as long as it works. And another advantage is that I can have it back my parents' computers too.

Thanks for any advice at all.

 

[tomt4535]

I use Crashplan to do pretty much the same thing. Instead of WHS on the remote side, it is just a small, low power Windows 7 machine with a few 2TB hard drives in it. Crashplan runs every night and keeps things backed up.

http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/index.html

 

[JackMDS]

How To Backup Your Computer Over the Internet with HomeServerSync VPN.

http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2...er-over-the-internet-with-homeserversync-vpn/


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