I have a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo RND2000 and I was thinking about trying to set it up at my brother's house in order to back up my server remotely. I have also purchased a license for cloudberry. I am running WHS2011.

What would be the best way to set this up, taking security and ease of use into consideration?

These are my thoughts at this point:
1) Set up the server (FTPS? HTTPS?) on the ReadyNAS and back up directly to that.

2) Set up a VPN (directly between the servers? he is running a WHS2011 machine as well) between the networks and back up as if it were a local drive.

Cloudberry currently supports backing up to a local drive. Their website said that FTP backup was coming soon but apparently that was posted to throw off the competition. The feature is not yet planned.

I would be grateful for any suggestions or insight on the issue.

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My HP Proliant ML110 G6 WHS2011 Server
My Clarkdale HTPC build thread

What about mapping the FTP server to a local drive on the server? I think if I was able to do this, cloudberry would be able to manage the backups. Here are some options I found for doing this:

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... th-ftpuse/
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-ti ... net-drive/
http://superuser.com/questions/67551/mo ... -windows-7
http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdri ... lient.html

Cloudberry does have the ability to encrypt the files before they are backed up, so that adds another layer of security....

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My HP Proliant ML110 G6 WHS2011 Server
My Clarkdale HTPC build thread

Does Cloudberry support WebDAV targets?

Most NAS's and WHS can present drives as WebDAV...

I managed to get Cloudberry up'n running on my EX490/WHS2011 this week. One particular issue was that backup failed when my NAS (a Synology DS209j) was mapped as a network drive on the home server. When i removed the network mapping backup would succeed. I believe this has something to do with duplicate credentials, but i'm no expert on the matter.

So; mapping the FTP server to a local drive then might not work for the same reasons it did'nt work for me.