Synology to Synology Backup is pretty sweet and useful for a variety of environments. We go into more detail about the general use of Synology Hyper Backup or backup to external disk is located on another post but continue reading Synology to Synology backup here for backing up your NAS data to completely separate office site or house. Rough post, sorry… more improvements to come.

Check out our bonus resources at the end of this article for all your Synology questions!

Data Recovery Support for Hyper Backup – Remote Synology Setup Steps

A nice video was put together on the topic as well.

Synology Vault

Log on to the Synology Diskstation Manager of the NAS that will store the back and setup the vault. To establish remote backup storage connectivity or Hyper Vault on the firewall, refer to Remote Access Firewall post to port forwarding the correct ports.

Synology Hyper Backup

Log on to the Synology Diskstation Manager of the NAS you wish to backup. Select Hyper Backup, Destination Backup – Remote Synology NAS

Backup Destinations Settings

Synology Server Name: Enter the Synology DDNS Name
Enable Transfer Encryption
Username: Input the user account AKA service account of the destination Synology box
Shared Folder: Please create a shared folder called “backup” on the destination Synology box

Encrypting backups

Data Folder Settings

Check mark the shared folders that need backing up. The “homes” folder contain all the Windows and Apple Cloudstation Client backup agent backups. Please discuss with client what other shared folders should be selected and or review actively used shares and remove unnecessary data from backup.

Application Backup

Photo Station is a good one to backup. These are configuration files that don’t consume a lot of space. Backing them up should be heavily consider along with the configuration file for the Synology itself. See Configuration Backup Section at the very bottom of this post.

Set Schedule

Enable task notification
Compress backup data
Enable backup schedule (default ok)
Enable integrity check schedule (defaults ok)

Final Step – Rotation Settings

Change to Smart Recycle and select 35 versions

Backup Deletion

You also have the option to delete not only the schedule but the data residing remotely on the other Synology if you need to do so.

Synology Configuration Backup

Please backup the configuration of the Synology and place somewhere other than the Synology itself. For us, we place in our client’s folder we store for them.

Bonus Resources

Synology to Synology Backup Summary

This post covers all the options for backup through the Synology NAS using Hyper Backup. We broke down step by step setup of the external drive setup and we have additional posts to cover the other critical ways to pursue backup of your organization.

Synology to Synology Backup

Synology to Synology Backup Summary

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