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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.