Hands down, I’m way too late to the party with my backup-strategy, and I have no good explanation.

I have a NAS with OMV on it, and I’m in dire need to create an offsite-backup. I have an old Synology DS215j, which I’d be able to put into my parents home (hundreds of kilometers away).

I didn’t find the energy to research the ways of doing what I want to do. As those are two different systems, the task seems enormous to me, without knowing what to do.

I imagined, that the Synology spins up once a day/once a week, and syncs the data and appdata (two different folder-structures on my NAS), with a certain number of snapshots.

Would you mind helping me a bit, giving me ideas how to set this up? Am I able to prepare this at home, before I bring this to my parents place?

Thank you a ton!

EDIT: Thank you all for your recommendations. I will take the time to read them thoroughly!

  • spaghetti_carbananaAEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Second to this - for what its worth (and I may be tarred and feathered for saying this here), I prefer commercial software for my backups.

    I’ve used many, including:

    • Acronis
    • Arcserve UDP
    • Datto
    • Storagecraft ShadowProtect
    • Unitrends Enterprise Backup (pre-Kaseya, RIP)
    • Veeam B&R
    • Veritas Backup Exec

    What was important to me was:

    • Global (not inline) deduplication to disk storage
    • Agent-less backup for VMware/Hyper-V
    • Tape support with direct granular restore
    • Ability to have multiple destinations on a backup job (e.g. disk to disk to tape)
    • Encryption
    • Easy to set up
    • Easy to make changes (GUI)
    • Easy to diagnose
    • Not having to faff about with it and have it be the one thing in my lab that just works

    Believe it or not, I landed on Backup Exec. Veeam was the only other one to even get close. I’ve been using BE for years now and it has never skipped a beat.

    This most likely isn’t the solution for you, but I’m mentioning it just so you can get a feel for the sort of considerations I made when deciding how my setup would work.