![]() Some of the features I’ve configured in my two DiskStations include: There’s a large community of users and sysadmins with a lot of experience with Synology DiskStations, so there’s an abundance of information and support available online. The boxes are compact Linux servers based on a variety of ARM processors. The DiskStation Manager (DSM) software includes an excellent browser-based management GUI and supports plug-in apps, some from third parties. ![]() They’re well regarded and now that I’ve had two of their DiskStations for a few weeks, I think the praise is well deserved. But once I started looking around, the company’s name came up over and over again. When I began this project, I’d never heard of Synology. But if you want to understand why I’ve settled on this solution for backup, and the tests and considerations that went into making these selections, read on! Intermission: If all you care about is the solution, you can stop here. Synology has done an excellent job in making their servers easy to setup and manage, but I still think it would be a bit scary and frustrating for someone who wasn’t already familiar with Linux and disk/file servers. I’ve got quite a bit of experience configuring and managing Linux servers, so these DiskStations are almost like old friends to me. I don’t recommend this solution for beginners. The synchronization uses the standard rsync utility, which transfers only disk blocks that have been modified since the last pass. I’m storing the files on the NAS servers in sparsebundles, the same format used by Time Machine. Once a day, at midnight, I then replicate the shared folders on the local and remote backup servers using Synology’s built-in shared-folder syncing. I sync each of the two drives in my iMac to a separate shared folders on the local NAS backup server every six hours using Carbon Copy Cloner. Total cost: US$1,349, which doesn’t include my Time Machine storage.A 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive as an OS X Recovery Drive.Carbon Copy Cloner app for backing up the iMac drives to the local NAS server.This is like having my own remote cloud server. An identical system to the one above, but located at a remote location and linked to the first one via the Internet.(1) Synology 214 DiskStation NAS (network-attached storage) server with (2) Western Digital 4TB Red drives configured as a single RAID0 (striped, non-redundant) disk group in a single 8TB volume for the local backup, connected to my iMac via Gigabit Ethernet.12TB non-redundant Time Machine storage, separate from the above, for versioned files.Īfter lots of research and testing, here’s what I’ve ended up with:. ![]()
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