cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57076243
Hi, wanting to move my 3rd location storage from in the cloud at C2 to my own hardware at a relatives house. The only requirement is that it works with Synology hyper backup. Any suggestions?
You must log in or register to comment.
I use hyper backup to backblaze pretty cheap and to a friends house were I just have a smaller Synology and use hyper backup to store a copy there. And use hyper backup to backup hourly snapshots to a external 12tb drive. I’m only backing up photos from my phone and wife’s phone. And some docs . So it’s maybe 3tb on my main NAS.
So maybe just get a cheap 2 bay Synology? They are like $200 on amazon.
Synology sells single bay units now, but anything that has network connectivity should work fine. If this is just off-site backup, find whatever is the cheapest. If an RPi with a USB attached disk is cheaper, do that.
You can find MiniPCs of all sorts really cheap now, though almost all have smaller onboard SSD storage.
Thanks. I’ve watched some Synology reviews and everyone says to stay away from the less expensive Synology products due to their lack of expandability, and weaker cpu and ram. Not sure that applies to me though, if I’m just after Hyper Backup… I am nervous about placing an order and finding that some hardware requirements aren’t met or something.
Really all you’re needing is a network interface to a disk. Nothing more. If you’re comfortable running a headless device, go for that and ignore Synology as the majority of the features aren’t even needed in this case. Hyper Backup supports rsync destinations on remote hosts, and that sounds like all you want.
