Backblaze Synology Hyper Backup

01-05-2021

Backblaze Synology Hyper Backup

Go to your Package Manager Backup and click on Installunder Cloud Sync. Next open Cloud Sync and click on the plus (+) button in the bottom left corner. Then select Backblaze B2from the list of providers and click on Next. Using Hyper Backup with Backblaze B2 With the launch of the Backblaze S3 Compatible APIs, Synology DiskStation users can also take advantage of the Hyper Backup app on their DiskStation. Hyper Backup offers a true backup solution for Synology owners that includes features like data deduplication, incremental backups, and backup rotation policies. I turned off the Backblaze versioning since Hyper Backup does its own versioning. You can safely disable it on Backblaze, it will not affact anything stored by Hyper Backup. It probably won't save much cost though unless you have deleted a lot of files and they have already fallen out.

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It depends on the volume of data. Running a second Synology unit at another site and mirroring changes (using something approaching the efficiency of rsync) will easily be the most economical beyond 1tb -- an amount typically included for free with just about every Office 365 subscription. It's not ideal however, unless you plan to perform DR to the cloud; that is, restore a failed local instance to a cloud platform. This is because you will be unable to get one tenth of 1tb of data that stored in the cloud in a timely fashion unless it is being restored to an adjacent platform.

The cool thing about rsync is that the bandwidth use can be near zero as you can do a full mirror once a week but generate a differential file each night and export it to a local drive instead of applying the changes over the internet. That differential file can be used to roll the remote version forward to the time the file was generated. You would only actually apply it to the remote mirror if need be -- testing notwithstanding.

Learning has never been so easy!

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This is a How-To on using Hyper Backup on a Synology NAS based on my experience with the product.
Hyper Backup is the backup solution on a Synology NAS and can be configured in many different ways and for many different purposes.
Today’s How-To is going to show how to set up a local backup to an external USB hard drive with Smart Rotation enabled.
This is a form of versioning that allows a user to restore an older version of a file or folder. I will show you how to set it up and hopefully in the future I will create another How to on restoring files/folders from Hyper Backup.

Using the Backblaze command line tool, b2 upload-file., I'm able to upload at over 30 MBps / 300 Mbps which completely saturates my FIOS bandwidth. Hyper Backup maxes out at around 5-7 MBps / 50-70 Mbps, but is usually less than that on average.
The idea is simple: Have Time Machine store its backup on your Synology NAS device, then sync the Time Machine backup from the Synology NAS to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. Once this is set up, the 3-2-1 backup process occurs automatically and your files are stored locally and off-site.

14 Steps total

Step 1: Open Hyper Backup

Log into your Synology web console and open the Hyper Backup application.

Step 2: Choose a Backup Task

Click on the cross in the bottom left hand corner and choose “Data Backup Task” from the options.

Step 3: Different Options to Choose from

There are many different options to choose from for the backup location. Today I am just showing how to back up to a local USB hard drive.

Step 4: Choose Local Folder & USB

Choose the option that says, “Local folder & USB”. This will create a single file on the Local folder or USB drive that you will use for the backup and will be accessible using the Hyper Backup Explorer in Hyper Backup. It will not replicate the folder structure, please see my previous How To article to set it up that way: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/148067-using-hyper-backup-to-backup-to-local-drive-synology-nas

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Press Next…..

Step 5: Choose a backup destination

Choose a location to back up the data to, in my case to the USBshare1 hard drive. (Please note, this share was set up when plugging in the USB drive to the Synology, so you will have to do that first). Press next….

Step 6: Choose which folders you would like to backup

Choose all folders if you want a full backup of your Synology, or choose individual folders that you want to back up. Press next….

Step 7: Choose applications to backup(If any)

Choose any applications that you may want to backup, then press next…..

Step 8: Create the Task Settings

Give your backup a name (task name). Usually I leave all options as default, this is personal preference. Tick the “Enable the backup schedule” option and choose when you would like the backups to run. The options here are: “Daily”, “Weekend”, “Week Days” or tick boxes for custom days. Then press next….

Step 9: Couple of different options for backup rotation

Enable backup rotation and then choose the method you would like to use. Please see this screenshot of the options that 'Smart Recycle' gives you.

Step 10: From the Earliest option

Hyper Backup will keep a single version of each file for as many versions as you choose. In the screenshot, the default is 256 versions and this would keep a single version each day for up to 9 months that you could restore.