If asked if you want to also install the associated portal, do include it as you'll (generally) need these for restores later. This is a matter of finding them in the Package Center within the NAS' web-based admin interface. There's no licenses or fees to pay for the functionality over and above the hardware.īefore looking at the backup experiences themselves I'll touch on installing the Add-on Packages themselves. Install the Add-on Packages, and you're ready to go.Buy enough hard drives and pop them into your NAS such that you've got enough space to hold the data you're backing up.Buy a compatible NAS, the right size for what you're backing up.In order to test this suite out, I've added the supplied Intel-powered DS920+ NAS to my home lab and have had it running for a few weeks backing up the other components within it.īefore we jump in, I feel like I should touch on cost. Reading between the lines, I would assume that our fictional small business would be somewhat price-sensitive which immediately rules out a lot of the large enterprise-scale backup options. Given the problem statement above and my previous experience, I don't know what I would have ended up recommending. I mentioned the "you don't know what you don't know" problem at the start of this post and that rings very true here. I'll be frank, prior to Synology getting in touch about reviewing Active Backup Suite I didn't know it existed. But can it actually meet all of their requirements? What is Active Backup Suite?Īctive Backup Suite is a collection of three Add-on Packages that can be installed directly on a supported Synology NAS:īackup (and business continuity) is one of my passions, and I happen to own the backup subject matter expert portfolio at work. In search of a solution, our business owner came across Synology's Active Backup Suite. Yes, your data in the cloud is still your problem. The third looks like too much work for a business already running lean and they really want an integrated solution.Ī bonus requirement is that they'd also like to be able to back up their Office 365 data. This rules out the first two options above. Ideally, our business owner wants both file recovery and the ability to restore their critical Hyper-V virtual machines if there is an issue there.
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