A Synology NAS with a data port and its Disk Station Manager software up to date.To proceed, you’ll need the following things: RELATED: The Best NAS (Network Attached Storage) Devices Plus, if you’re planning on doing any serious overhauling of your Synology NAS (like a total swap of all the disks, migrating to a new NAS unit, or so on) even though the built-in tools for doing so provided by Synology are very user friendly, you should always back up your data to play it safe. Further, if you want to obey one of the cardinal rules of proper backup practice, no bit of data is ever truly backed up unless there is an offline cold-storage copy of it somewhere.
Namely, because it’s always on and plugged into your home power, any awful fate that befalls your home also befalls it (like a house fire or lightning strike).
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RELATED: How to Set Up and Get Started with Your Synology NASĪlthough the Synology NAS platform-including the Disk Station Manager operating system that runs on it and the propriety automated Synology Hybrid Raid (SHR)-is a rock solid and easy way to back up data from your computers, it suffers, by the very nature of things, from some of the same issues that plague any always-on backup system. Let’s take a look at how to back up your Synology NAS for the ultimate data redundancy. “isn’t the NAS the backup though?” Not so fast-not all backups are equal, and a backup isn’t truly a backup until there’s a cold storage copy of it somewhere. “Create a backup of my NAS?” you might say.
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