![]() ![]() There’s no licenses or fess 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 then 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.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.In order to test this out the suite, 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. 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 for 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. Local backup software, which would allow restoration of both files and entire systems but needs its own management server and storage in addition to the software.A script written by the owner’s cousin that copies files to an external hard drive, which may or may not allow restoration of deleted files.A direct to cloud service, which would allow restoration of deleted files.They know they need to implement a backup solution, but what? ![]() ![]() Nothing is being backed up, and day to day they’re hoping none of their hardware fails or a staff member doesn’t accidentally delete some critical files. ![]() The owner of our fictional small business has realized that they are currently carrying a risk that they are no longer comfortable with. Their email happens to be hosted in an Office 365 tenant. This might be a small retail business, with a single point of sale machine, a supervisor on a laptop, and the point of sale software running on one of the Hyper-V guests. There’s a Hyper-V host that pulls double duty as a file server, one desktop workstation and a laptop that comes and goes from the network. My home lab environment is close to what you might see in a small business here in New Zealand, with a single managed switch that connects to a router and a fibre internet connection. Synology have a suite of options under an “Active Backup” umbrella that could be a compelling, and complete, solution for small businesses. Turns out I was very wrong on that front. Beyond that this post isn't sponsored, thoughts are my own, and Synology first get to see this post the same time you do. Synology provided an Intel-based DS920+ NAS for the purpose of reviewing the Active Backup Suite software. While I knew you could run certain workloads on them, I had no idea they have their own suite of backup tools. Why this selection? They are all providers I’ve worked with or evaluated in the past, however this does indicate a “you don’t know what you don’t know” problem.įor example, Synology has always just been a “storage” company in my mind. Until recently if you asked me about backup providers, I would have talked about the likes of Veeam ![]()
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