The only issue that I have had is a power supply failure in an older DS-1815+. I run these with redundant backups of the video files to/from my home and office using a second NAS installed on my home network as the “hub” running Synology’s Surveillance Station.Īll of it works great and has proven to be very reliable and easy to maintain. I also have surveillance cameras installed at my home and office. I have a NAS installed on my office network, 8 miles away, that realtime backs up my home network NAS using Synology Drive SyncShare app. I have a number of shared folders on my Synology for back up destinations for my 8TB of photo and video files, personal financial and other documents, receipts and
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My iMac and MacBook Pro M1Max automatically realtime back up files to the NAS using the Synology Drive client application. I have been using Synology DiskStation 8-bay NASes for years.
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Both, offsite to a different location and offline to external disks. It is therefore even more important to have multiple backups of the valuable data. RAID only “protects” against acute hardware failure, but is no backup. Think of it that way: A degraded RAID 6 with two defective drives will first be restored to a RAID 5 and then to 6 again. Yet, that does not mitigate the risk of the taxing restore. With RAID 6, you have at least two drives as parities and therefore could afford to lose two due to hardware failures. During that time all data is at risk if just another drive fails if you use RAID 5, because it only relies on one drive as a parity. I personally go with multiple RAID 1s myself, but I’ve also set up other types for clients.Īs I explained above, restoring a large amount of data from a degraded storage array (due to failure of one drive) takes a long time. I explained RAID 5 and RAID 6, as well as using multiple RAID 1 in the previous, detailed reply. If you are talking about what RAID type to choose for your storage pool, it largely depends on your goals and needs. You can specify those in your Synology Drive Admin Console settings in DSM. All files in it will be sync’d to a shared folder on your NAS. By that Synology Drive would work like Dropbox.
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For Windows I’ve heard good things about their backup and the direct integration into the Windows Explorer’s file recovery feature, where you can right click on a folder and restore it right from there, is neatįor the Mac I would only configure the Synology Drive client (the local one in your Mac’s Menubar) and have it sync to a folder in your local Mac home folder (~/Synology Drive/ for example). Since you use TimeMachine I wouldn’t use Synology Drive Backup for the Mac. (MacBook with 256GB internal SSD → 512GB quota.) I recommend to choose at least twice the size of your Mac’s storage. This is done in the shared folder properties in the Control Panel (where all system settings of the Synology NAS can be found) via DSM. You could assign a quota of for example 512GB to each user that can access the TimeMachine shared folder. The other way would be to use user based quotas and by that not setting a maximum size limit for the TimeMachine shared folder itself. If you have defined a maximum shared folder size, but maybe backup multiple Macs to it, the available storage will most likely not suffice.
The question is how do you limited the size? There are two options: You either have capped the maximum shared folder size to 1TB or you set user quotas. You are correct, it should purge old backups “parts” once the assigned TimeMachine “shared folder” on your NAS is full. This is a problem independent from the Synology Drive situation. So it seems that you have correctly configured your Synology NAS to work as a TimeMachine host and have set your Mac’s TimeMachine preferences to recognize it properly as a destination, but it running out of space.
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