Is vpn the best choice?

[Wolters]

Hi, I have now tried different ways of backing up a remote PC to an NAS drive on our LAN at home over the Internet. But the different variants I have tried so far, ftp and SSH does not work very well in my case, and seem a bit unstable. I am therefore wondering if vpn could be a better alternative?

What I am thinking of is to change my current D-Link router to a router with vpn so that the remote PC can establish a secure connection (and hopefully stable...) to our LAN and then go on to syncronize files to our NAS...

We have a fixed ip-adress to the internet which might make this easier??

Or is this not a good one for some reason???

If it is indeed the best choice for backing up a computer to our NAS, then are there any requirements on equipment that I should think of if I want to use Super Flexible File Syncronizer as the back-up-programme??? Besides an vpn router, what else would I need in order to get this thing working???

Thanks!

[superflexible]

A VPN is a very useful thing and will make backing up much easier. You will probably access the NAS via standard Windows networking (Samba/CIFS). Speed will probably a little slower than straight FTP, but one of the advantages would be the secured connection. And you could use FTP over the VPN too, which should work better than FTP over the plain Internet. There are no special requirements, you should choose the devices that make it easiest to set up the VPN (both ends must work together).