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Hiya!

I’m looking for a software solution to backup the data on our NAS device. I’m not looking for a how to backup to a NAS device. We have over 550GB of data on our NAS now. I’m looking for a solution to back that data up. It can be usb external drive if it has to be. I know that probably is not the best solution but at least it’s something.

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

Mark

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What kind of NAS device do you have? Some NAS vendors have built-in tools for backing up, and some work really well with external USB drives as backup targets. Whatever you do, make sure to follow the 3-2-1 rule:

Keep 3 copies of your data, 2 locally but on different mediums, and 1 offsite in case of disaster.

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NAS replication? A lot of NAS devices have the ability to sync the cloud so that could be an option?

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It is a LaCie NAS . It has a basic windows backup utility on it that I see.

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As of right now I doubt the cloud would be an option.

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I was gonna say the thing about Seagate as I have seen with the external drives they come with software for such a task. Or if doesn’t tickle your fancy you could always use Vice Versa to monitor all changes and simply do a contribute backup to another data cache. Obviously it is a pay for licensed product but it runs like a champ in every environment I have set it up in. Unless your looking to go to the cloud then never mind

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Just to confirm…you are looking to backup the data (files) residing on the NAS. Not looking to backup the NAS configuration and not looking to use the NAS as a backup storage ?

If thats the case…there are a few options…

  1. Change to Synology NAS as most synology NAS have backup software builtin.

  2. Use Rsync to sync folders and files to another NAS or storage appliance or USB device (if your NAS model supports USB devices)

  3. Link the shared folder to a PC or lappy then as a UNC link or mapped drive, then backup the files & folders via the PC or lappy using backup software like Veeam Agent for Windows.

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You could use Vembu NetworkBackup , supports backup files available in your NAS, as well can use your NAS storage as backup storage location. You could use one porttion of your existing NAS storage as backup location in case you want to use the same NAS for backup purpose.

Vembu NetworkBackup ensures protection to all your business critical data across file servers, application servers, and workstations.

  • Backup Files/Folders

  • Backup System State, Active Directory & Registry

  • Backup Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint & Outlook

  • Encrypt your data, both at-rest and in-flight

  • Retain files that you need along with its versions, spanning years

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How to install the software into the NAS ??

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How to install the software into the NAS ??

You can’t install the application natively on the NAS device. You can use the NAS device as storage location for backup by installing the application on any system and attach the NAS storage on to that system ( through iSCSI for example ).

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So how to backup files that are on the NAS ? You did not mention that part in any of your responses.

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Thanks for your interest. It is obvious the user or system has access those files in NAS through mapped drive or iSCSI attached drive or through network share. If he wants to take backup of those files in NAS, Vembu Network Backup will list those iSCSI drive or mapped drive for backup in their backup list to choose when he installed the application on the system.

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You will need to use an intermediary workstation or server to pull the data from the Synology to a cloud storage through Wasabi, Backblaze, S3 or any other cloud storage with an application such as Duplicati, Veeam or any other for backups.

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Flu While CloudBerry doesn’t have a specific product for NAS backup, we do have CloudBerry Backup which can back up files on a NAS from a workstation/server. You install CloudBerry Backup on the workstation/server and then setup a backup plan to backup the NAS (through mapped drive or iSCSI connection) to a destination of your choice. You can backup locally to another hard drive or you can backup to a cloud storage service (or both).

CloudBerry Backup used to have direct support for some NAS devices but we dropped it because of the number of vendors and how often they modify their software.

More information on CloudBerry Backup can be found here: MSP360 Backup Products For MSPs and Businesses of All Sizes

@mark3012

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There are some good ideas here. Thanks to everyone. I’ll be looking at a couple of the suggestions from here next week.

Thanks again!

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Have you considered Rsync as a possible solution? Take a look at it here - rsync.net Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups

Once again, it would all depend on the performance requirement on hand.

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Hey OP. So we had to reach out internally to the product team for more in-depth info, what we found out is that in the past we offered 2 solutions for this product:

Genie Timeline (Windows)
Intego (Mac)

The complication coming into play is these are both being discontinued, and our products are being rolled into Toolkit ( download here ). Because we are actually in the middle of this transition, we can’t guarantee it’s been activated yet for your product specifically.

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It’s a bad idea letting something run on your NAS and having NAS backuping to another NAS (*). Normally you configure multiple NASes as a separate backup repositories and let your backup app of choice manage them and have redundant copies of your files (VMs etc) being run in sync @ object level.

(*) It’s really overdiscussed topic, please use search. In a nutshell: you want your data back, but if original NAS is dead what are you gonna do? Get new one? It’s not sold anymore. Find used one on eBay and pray it won’t arrive DOA etc? Pain… Complication.

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