OP here. Appreciate the input. Let me add a bit more context.
My ISY programming, and network management skills are much more basic than 98% of the folks here. Terms like "node server" don't have much meaning to me.
here's more of the "Big Picture"... I was hit with a ransomwear attack last summer, where the bulk of the files on my old QNAP 2-disk NAS were encrypted, and I came close to loosing lots of important things, until I managed to find an old hard drive in a closet to bail myself out. Because these were files I dont access regularly, I didnt even notice the encryption until 3 months after the attack. Trying to avoid that again, so bought a new Synology as my primary NAS, and was going to attempt to automate its backup about once a month (or 2?), via windows task manager, and FreeFileSync, to the QNAP. For added security, that QNAP was going to be mostly powered off. It is in a mode such that when power is restored (after power outage, etc), it boots back up.
So, using a basic insteon module, have the QNAP turned on for, say, 24 hours on the 15th of every month (or every other month?), then turned off. I would assume is the QNAP is powered off, it will be nearly impossible to hack into. I would schedule the backups to happen during that 24 hour window of being powered on.
thanks.