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The Synology End Game

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452 points amacbride | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 06:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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articsputnik ◴[29 Aug 25 08:09 UTC] No.45061473[source]▶
I have one too, 2013 I guess. I just use it as storage (samba-drive I guess) connected to my mini-computer (hp800) that runs hp800. I do occasional backups via rsync. It works. I also store some images etc. that I don't use there. But I only run a RAID, so I don't have the NAS backuped as well. I still have them in my old macbook backups. But not sure how to properly solve that dilemma of backing up a very large multiple TBs NAS, as I can't afford many more disks and another server to run just for that. If you have any a simple solution, I'm all ear :)
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Kototama ◴[29 Aug 25 08:27 UTC] No.45061586[source]▶
You can use Synology Hyper Backup (or any cloud backup program) and an AWS S3 compatible provider, such as Backblaze.
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articsputnik ◴[29 Aug 25 11:47 UTC] No.45062796[source]▶
what would be an option to still do it locally? without sending it to the cloud? probably needs a good compression
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1. Kototama ◴[29 Aug 25 14:27 UTC] No.45064593[source]▶
You could have a big external USB drive and try a deduplicating backup software such as borg backup or restic.
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2. articsputnik ◴[02 Sep 25 06:58 UTC] No.45099927[source]▶
borg is one that pops up all the time, maybe i need to look into that more deeply. I like rsync, but it's creating huge backups. thanks for the suggestions and help, much appreciated.