off site backup for NAS

[pcpete]

what do you guys like to use to do an offsite backup of synology NASs? Is backing up system images to the NAS, then backing them up to the cloud from the NAS practical due to the larger sizes of system images?

We do have an ibackup account currently we were debating about dropping, but may keep it if it would be a good service to use for the cloud backup of the server

 

[MichaelBits]

I set one up at a water plant several years ago.
Main NAS was in the basement under the office. This was basically a backup for their main server. That NAS was then linked to another NAS offsite at the actual water plant. All it did was back up the primary NAS.

Depending on how good their network is, and whether they have a satellite office that could be used, this may or may not work for your situation.

For this one, they had a solid direct network connection to the plant, so it actually worked pretty quick over their network.

I don't recall the specifics of the setup, was setup a couple years ago, but Synology has it all built in.

 

[HCHTech]

Main NAS was in the basement under the office. This was basically a backup for their main server. That NAS was then linked to another NAS offsite at the actual water plant. All it did was back up the primary NAS.

We've done this a handful of times, usually to a NAS in the owner's home. We put a firewall in the remote location so it all happens over a VPN tunnel.

If you are using Synology, take a look a Active Backup for Business for onsite backups. Pretty good software and free. Then, use their HyperBackup to backup one NAS to the other.

 

[roborobs computer repair]

I set one up at a water plant several years ago.
Main NAS was in the basement under the office. This was basically a backup for their main server. That NAS was then linked to another NAS offsite at the actual water plant. All it did was back up the primary NAS.
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I setup something similar for a financial advising company once. Primary NAS at the office and a Secondary NAS off site at the CEO's home due to him having the best connection. He had a 1G connection at his home. Sinology makes this extremely easy.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Also you can slow trickle a cloud backup to a B2 bucket for ultra cheap ... I think like storing 10TB of data is like $10 a month ... getting it back however presents some downtime.