Having a dedicated virtual machine on my NAS enables me to have a (slow) full-fledged PC on the NAS. I am aware of the fact that there are different solutions out there, but I like it to be independent of app limitations. Both accounts are included in my Office 365 subscription (1TB each). In this VM, Arq is backing up one share to one OneDrive Account and a second share to a different OneDrive account. I have a Virtual Machine (Windows 10) installed on my NAS, which does several tasks for my needs. I have two ways in place to backup the NAS data: My use case is a little different though. I own a QNAP NAS but I think the situation might be similar to some degree. The setup is complex, and The Google can help you find instructions, but I’m not sure this is worth the effort just to use HyperBackup at home. The Synology shares are cloned daily and and Arq’s to B2 every 6 hours.Īs an aside, it is possible to set up a WebDav share without MacOS Server (in fact, this will soon be necessary as Apple is removing services from Server). Now, my Mac Mini server and MacBookPro both do clones and Time Machine (to an external drive on the mini) as well as the Arq backup to BackBlaze B2. At the time I did not have a robust in-house TimeMachine and Clone setup, which was as mistake. With BackBlaze they would have been gone from online store. I have already had once situation in which I discovered missing files many months after the last time I had accessed them.

I personally stopped using BackBlaze because they only retain files for 30 days if deleted. I will reiterate my comments from another thread. I would probably NOT user HyperBackup to the Mac external drive, because you are layering another, essentially unnecessary data structure on top of your data with this mechanism, ensuring that to restore your files you would need to d/l the entire set of files from BackBlaze and then use Synology’s HyperBackup Explorer…too many places for something to go wrong. This is quite easy to do, as CCC at least will do this automatically for you.

You will need to set up the cloning software to ensure that the Synology share is mounted for cloning.

I personally use CCC, but both of the others are well regarded as well. There are two other Mac cloning apps that are also well-known and very good: SuperDuper! and ChronoSync. I believe this is the setup that Katie Floyd has described. I think the best approach is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the Synology to the external drive on your Mac.

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