Hi All I 'm using a Synology DiskStation as a NAS exclusively for remote backup via rsync Is ...

[G+_Akos Redey]

Hi All. I'm using a Synology DiskStation as a NAS exclusively for remote backup via rsync. Is there a way to do local full disk encryption on the DoskStation so that the drives storing the backup can't be accessed if the NAS is stolen? Any link describing it would be much appreciated.

Thanks - A'

[G+_Eddie Foy]

How are you going to authenticate at boot so the OS/NAS can do the decryption?

[G+_Ben Reese]

What it needs is a wireless key that you could hide somewhere nearby. Where's the Synology idea box?

[G+_Akos Redey]

Thanks for the responses. I'm I run my backups manually, so I'd be able to mount/unmount the encrypted file system manually via SSH, maybe a script. Maybe not whole disk encryption, then.

[G+_Ben Reese]

I'd guess client-side would be easier in that case than. Perhaps a ISCSI volume that gets mounted on the client and encrypted with whatever you like. Veracrypt?

[G+_Ben Reese]

Or perhaps use CrashPlan to backup to your NAS. It's free for personal use and supports client-side encryption.

I'd guess there are other easy ways to encrypt client-side too though.

[G+_Akos Redey]

Yeah, I am using CrashPlan (with client side encryption), this would be the alternate method, and I'd like it to be completely independent (different/independent crypt, different transmission, location etc.). VeraCrypt would be perfect if Synology supported it. Or if I could create a secure Linux file system (ZFS?) from the HDs. As I have a large backup (say 1 TB) I don't want to dump it locally on the remote server into a Veracypt container, for example, and rsync across the the entire 1 TB file/blob in one go...