#Synology drive backup pro#
#Synology drive backup software#
#Synology drive backup windows 8#
#Synology drive backup free#

If you previously connected with a different account, Windows might automatically use that one. Note, make sure you use the correct credentials, that is your backup account you previously created (if you did so). Once that is set up, you can simply click the “Turn on” button to enable File History. Click on “Select drive” to select the network location where you want to host your backup data. When you first configure it, you obviously won’t see anything there. The following image shows my currently working setup.

#Synology drive backup windows 8#

The OSX Timemachine like service on Windows 8 is called File History. As mentioned before, this is suggested in order to limit the amount of space that can possibly be used by your backup.Ĭontinue till the end of the account creation wizard and apply your configuration. On the access rights page give it read/write access to the backup folder on your disk station. To create a backup account simply login to your Synology web interface, open the Control Panel and navigate to “User”. Obviously, if you don’t have such a requirement or for other “non-powerusers” in your network, you can also use the same account. Since you can only impose quotas at the account level I tend to create a different ones. I wouldn’t want to share the quota of that account with the one used for backups. For instance, I normally use an account “juri” to my disk station, for deploying files, videos, photos and so on. Note: This approach is useful for imposing different quota limits to the backup and your “usual” Synology account. I suggest you to configure a separate user account on your Synology NAS which is exclusively used for performing the backup. Now continue by creating a new backup user. Open the Control Panel on your Synology web interface and navigate to “Shared Folder”. Note, this folder can be used to backup multiple user/windows machines. Create a shared backup folderįirst of all, create a new shared folder that will be used as the container for your windows backups. Still, you may easily be able to apply similar steps to your system.

I’m running a Synology disk station DS414j with DSM 5.1 installed on it. Here’s how I configured it to work with my Synology NAS (but you can easily adopt it for your NAS system). Now having my Surface I obviously wanted the same on my Windows machine. Once configured it silently runs in the background and makes sure you have everything backed up.

That said, one of the things I liked about my Mac or better, about OSX is Timemachine.

#Synology drive backup pro#

At work I’m a PC user and lately I acquired a Surface Pro 3 as well. I gave up on Synology software, and Windows backupis dumbed down, so I use scheduled robocopy to back up to the NAS.I love my Macbook Pro which I’ve been using now for about 6 years.

#Synology drive backup software#

It may be that your software is smarter than what Synology offered a few years ago. You better check what semantics you have.

#Synology drive backup free#

Restore the file from backup? NOOO, then I can never get rid of stuff I don’t want to free up disk space.ĭelete the file in the NAS too? NOOO, NOOO, NOOO, then I don’t have protection from human or software errors that might mistakenly delete the file.īackup means, keep all data in the backup store, regardless of what happens on the original system, and don’t write back unless asked to in a Restore operation. When a file is deleted on the computer, what do you want to do? This is illustrated by a question Sonology asked me during setup: (Maybe this is what Mirroring means in your setup?) But sync is not backup. I don’t know the specific tool you are using, Active Backup for Business, and my Synology doesn’t look exactly like that.īut I once tried to set up Synol9gy to do backup, and all they offered was “sync”.