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Any experience of Diode? (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity

And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names

And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

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[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Look at restic and/or borg first. Iff you have specific needs that they don't address, then look at other things (including reviewing your requirements: chances are you are doing something wrong in that case).

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, those are for the layer on top of a secure network.

My use case is less about the backup software, more about the network.

Diode - as far as I can make out from their site - provides both storage and networking, but I'm not interested in their storage (as I don't understand where it is) - this is about getting data to my offsite NAS, securely.

[–] ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What I'm reading is that you want site-to-site connectivity. Wireguard + possibly dynamic DNS makes this pretty easy (assuming you can open ports and configure NAT at your sites). Or you could set up some other VPN solution like OpenVPN.

There's also tailscale (a paid service) for facilitating the wireguard setup, NAT traversal and relaying. headscale is a self hosted solution that aims to provide something similar (but more limited in scope).

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, my default go to is a site-to-site OpenVPN tunnel, but thought I'd look around at what the kool kidz are doing these days. Thanks.