I backup important stuff encrypted to S3 with a script.
> 2. Do you have this local cloud poked out to the outside? How do you handle security? Is there a simple web interface that you can get to something when you're away from the house and your personal equipment?
I use pfSense [0] as a router / security appliance running on a Atom based micro ATX board with a 4 ethernet ports. I connect remotely using OpenVPN terminated at the pfSense box and use Viscosity [2] on the client side. File storage is on a FreeNAS [1] server. Very easy to setup if you have basic networking knowledge. The only downside is that there is no built in support for OpenVPN in iOS. There is an app that handles it if your device is jailbroken.
I backup important stuff encrypted to S3 with a script.
> 2. Do you have this local cloud poked out to the outside? How do you handle security? Is there a simple web interface that you can get to something when you're away from the house and your personal equipment?
I use pfSense [0] as a router / security appliance running on a Atom based micro ATX board with a 4 ethernet ports. I connect remotely using OpenVPN terminated at the pfSense box and use Viscosity [2] on the client side. File storage is on a FreeNAS [1] server. Very easy to setup if you have basic networking knowledge. The only downside is that there is no built in support for OpenVPN in iOS. There is an app that handles it if your device is jailbroken.
[0] http://www.pfsense.org/
[1] http://www.freenas.org/
[2] http://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/