In March we will celebrate World Backup Day. Every day is a great day to make sure you’re backing up your data but World Backup Day is a day dedicated to making sure! You can use Synology devices to create a backup routine that is effective for your company. The 3-2-1 Backup strategy is simple:
3 copies of your data: 1 copy being production, and two backup copies. It can look something like this:
Your production lives on your servers, workstations, etc. then you back those up to your main Synology unit. The main Synology unit is then replicated to an offsite Synology or to C2 cloud (or another provider of your choice).
In 2024 making sure you have data protection is pretty easy and isn’t that expensive.
Microsoft DPM! Just kidding… although when I was using that, it saved my bacon numerous times.
We use a combination of straight exports of VM’s to a file server and synology’s active backup for physical servers and a copy of all vm’s. That synology is backed up to another at one of other locations.
Never had to use any of the synology backups yet… but those file server copies have come in clutch a couple of times.
We use Synology Active Backup for Business and Active Backup for 365 on all of our customer sites, absolute no brainer. We also use Synology Drive for our customer file solutions, way better that all the paid cloud vendors and it’s free!
Hi, I also use the Active 365 Backup service for my client base and have recently taken to billing my clients a monthly fee for the management and admin of this service, and for the management of the NAS in general. Running concurrently to this is my C2 backup, taking snapshots. It was the cost of this that prompted the move to sell as a service. Am I alone in that? Does anyone here bill a monthly charge for maintenance and backup of the Synology kit like I do?
I use a Local synology Nas for my backups then back that up to a remote synology
Nas. I have 3 totals Synology Nas systems. 1 at my office. 1 at my home. 1 at my Fiber NOC for my WISP. They all back up to each other for redundancy.
We work with MSPs who will put in a NAS and charge for that – or charge for image based backups and then charge to have the next copy go to C2. There’s a dozen ways to skin this cat.
We have been using replibit for years, now called x360Recover. Onsite system backs up any computers or servers needed as a full usable system image. Most of the time we just do one image a day, but I have some clients that want a system images every couple of hours. Then that image is backed up off site daily.
But I also use Synology nas for some clients and myself.
