Backblaze B2 Synology Hyper Backup



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This is a How-To on using Hyper Backup on a Synology NAS based on my experience with the product.
Hyper Backup is the backup solution on a Synology NAS and can be configured in many different ways and for many different purposes.
Today’s How-To is going to show how to set up a local backup to an external USB hard drive with Smart Rotation enabled.
This is a form of versioning that allows a user to restore an older version of a file or folder. I will show you how to set it up and hopefully in the future I will create another How to on restoring files/folders from Hyper Backup.

I've been using BackBlaze for a while now (since Crashplan exited the consumer space) for online backup of my iMac. I just added the B2 to my account and will try a NAS backup as well. I'll have to run some numbers and see if makes more financial sense to just backup the NAS to B2 as I already have my time machine backups on the NAS (3-2-1) anyway. Iperius Backup is a complete cloud backup solution that allows direct backup to Backblaze B2. Synology’s Hyper Backup allows users to back up various kinds of data (system configurations, shared folders, and applications/packages) on your Synology NAS, manually or by schedule. You can store the backup data in local shared folders, remote servers, and public clouds, like Backblaze B2 with our new S3 API. I would like to ask for suggestions on the best cost effective cloud storage solution for our Synology NAS. This will serve as a DR location since we already do offsite and offline back up and we just needed something for a cloud back up. I have heard about Wasabi, B2, C2, Azure, and AWS but wondering which is the way to go. The Synology Hyper Backup app allows owners of Synology NAS devices to easily set up backups to various cloud services. However, one thing that isn’t shown in the app is the pricing of each service. So here’s a pricing comparison (prices as of Aug 4, 2018). Synology C2 Location: Frankfurt, Germany 100 GB = €9.99/year (approx. USD $0.0100/GB/month) 300 GB = €24.99/year (approx.

14 Steps total

Step 1: Open Hyper Backup

Log into your Synology web console and open the Hyper Backup application.

Step 2: Choose a Backup Task

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Synology Hyper Backup Backblaze B2

Click on the cross in the bottom left hand corner and choose “Data Backup Task” from the options.

Step 3: Different Options to Choose from

There are many different options to choose from for the backup location. Today I am just showing how to back up to a local USB hard drive.

Step 4: Choose Local Folder & USB

Choose the option that says, “Local folder & USB”. This will create a single file on the Local folder or USB drive that you will use for the backup and will be accessible using the Hyper Backup Explorer in Hyper Backup. It will not replicate the folder structure, please see my previous How To article to set it up that way: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/148067-using-hyper-backup-to-backup-to-local-drive-synology-nas

Press Next…..

Step 5: Choose a backup destination

Choose a location to back up the data to, in my case to the USBshare1 hard drive. (Please note, this share was set up when plugging in the USB drive to the Synology, so you will have to do that first). Press next….

Step 6: Choose which folders you would like to backup

Choose all folders if you want a full backup of your Synology, or choose individual folders that you want to back up. Press next….

Step 7: Choose applications to backup(If any)

Choose any applications that you may want to backup, then press next…..

Step 8: Create the Task Settings

Give your backup a name (task name). Usually I leave all options as default, this is personal preference. Tick the “Enable the backup schedule” option and choose when you would like the backups to run. The options here are: “Daily”, “Weekend”, “Week Days” or tick boxes for custom days. Then press next….

Step 9: Couple of different options for backup rotation

Enable backup rotation and then choose the method you would like to use. Please see this screenshot of the options that 'Smart Recycle' gives you.

Step 10: From the Earliest option

Hyper Backup will keep a single version of each file for as many versions as you choose. In the screenshot, the default is 256 versions and this would keep a single version each day for up to 9 months that you could restore.

Step 11: Smart Recycle Option

Synology Hyper Backup Backblaze

As the first screenshot showed, this option will keep hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily versions for the past month and weekly versions older than a month for up to 4 years in this screenshot.

Step 12: Change frequency of the backup task (If required)

When the task is completed, you can change the frequency of the backup by pressing “Settings”,

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Step 13: Frequency Settings

Clicking on the “Schedule” tab and changing the “Frequency” from once a day to any option of every hour, etc.

Synology Cloud Backup

Step 14: Results

This is how it looks in the directory created on the USB hard drive.

Synology nas cloud backup

This is just a general run down of the product, but is easy to configure and has many options available.

References

  • For further information, please visit: https://www.synology.com/en-global/support

Backblaze B2 Synology Hyper Backup Reviews

5 Comments

  • Thai Pepper
    MI50 Aug 29, 2018 at 01:47pm

    Thanks for this how to have you created one on how to backup from one synology to another synology that is offsite over the internet?

  • Serrano
    wilthorna Aug 30, 2018 at 02:37am

    Sorry no, I haven't looked into this. The guy from Techwiztime on Youtube has a pretty good video of that scenario
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUuCvuUFgHA

    * I have no affiliation, but found that video informative.

  • Pimiento
    spicehead-zf7mg Feb 21, 2019 at 10:13am

    umm ROTATION would normally mean rotating DISKS ...
    how can this be done? ie allowing one disk to be rotated weekly off-site form a2 disk set

  • Pimiento
    gavincritchley Mar 18, 2019 at 09:41pm

    Should the title be Smart Rotation or Smart Retention? Rotation is something you haven't covered.

  • Serrano
    dBrad Aug 22, 2019 at 06:28pm

    Agree with the above comments - this is NOT rotation. And in my experience you cannot properly rotate backups at all with Synology DSM 6 or higher. Time Backup works like a champ on prior DSM versions but they replaced it with Hyper Backup and proper drive rotation no longer works.